"Electric car sales sputter as Mainers go for SUVs"

"Electric car sales sputter as Mainers
go for SUVs"


► Source ◄


Climate talks in Paris are heightening awareness of the need for green cars, but the go-to vehicle in largely rural Maine is an SUV that can haul kids and gear in all kinds of weather.


Figures show there’s a clear disconnect between what Mainers want to drive and what advocates say they will need to drive to limit so-called greenhouse gases.

Nearly a quarter of the new cars purchased this year in Maine were small sport utility vehicles, according to the Dominion Cross-Sell Report, which tracks sales and registration data. When pickup trucks and SUVs are added together, they account for nearly 60 percent of new vehicle sales this year in Maine.

Battery-electric cars and plug-in vehicles that also have small gasoline engines account for less than 1 percent of the 46,011 new cars registered in Maine as of Sept. 30.

Views: 230

Comment

You need to be a member of Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine to add comments!

Join Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine

Comment by Penny Gray on December 7, 2015 at 12:45pm

Interesting point about carbon capture in coal.  Another wind turbine/electric car analogy, in addition to the 28% functionality, would be the back up required for both.  It would seem from reading the comments on that article that for real driving, owners of EV's keep a second vehicle or rent one.

Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on December 7, 2015 at 12:31pm

If electric vehicles ever caught on and our driving was largely powered by electricity rather than gasoline (or potentially natural gas), we would not rely on an electricity source as expensive as wind power. Like so many of these schemes promoted by ideologues sitting atop their unicorns sprinkling fairy dust, it ignores economics.

Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on December 7, 2015 at 11:56am

To bring this a bit back into perspective, Maine is NOT producing for Maine's CO² removal of what we contribute, but that of others. Our so called Green BioMass facilities (wood) are as contributive as Coal to the CO² problems. Though wood is faster to be renewable in the life cycle, where coal is Carbon Capture of Millions of years in the past. Coal adds the millions of years collection to our current production.

The energy needed to produce these wind monstrosities requires intense high amounts of energy to melt the heavy metals, produce the plastics, fibreglass, transport, and even that of associated requirements such as maintaining, the person traveling to work, the home they heat so they are available to perform the tasks.... and so on............ This is INVESTED CO² BEFORE any realization of any possible reduction potential of any significant worth.

Though I must say, these wind turbines may be a perfect match for Electric, or Hybrid Electric vehicles in Maine (northern climates), during winter months........ the turbines produce at no greater than 28% and the vehicles function less than 28% of the time as promoted............

Like adding ethanol to gasoline, the lowering of the energy value to gain 1pp billion reduction of CO² created an increase in CO² as the MPG dropped causing more gasoline to be needed for the same distances traveled.  

In Maine, (northern states) these batteries do not fare well,  and wear out faster causing more production for replacements. The true advantage of Electric Vehicles is in Urban or Cities, where a lot of Idling at intersections at traffic lights occurs......... 

The results have been tested here locally by some that went the Do Good, Feel Right approach, and were soon brought back to reality.......... 

Comment by arthur qwenk on December 7, 2015 at 10:48am

Maine is being destroyed by left wing controlled energy policy.

Average citizens have to speak up in opposition to this folly, or face the consequences of being last in the nation on most things , other than "GREEN" DogMA!

Comment by Long Islander on December 7, 2015 at 9:15am

Maine's CO2 Emissions from Electricity Production Less Than 1/3 the National Average. In other words, electric power production (only responsible for about 10% of CO2 emissions in Maine) is NOT much of a contributor to CO2, meaning all of these unquestionably harmful wind monstrosities couldn't make a dent - even if they worked as claimed by the wind industry and their federation of paid off supporters.

http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/epa-s-bad-news-for-wind...

Comment by Penny Gray on December 7, 2015 at 7:58am

suburban wheels for upper middle class folks with heated garages and a short commute to work.  How do the recharging stations work, are they coin operated?

 

Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********

(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

Not yet a member?

Sign up today and lend your voice and presence to the steadily rising tide that will soon sweep the scourge of useless and wretched turbines from our beloved Maine countryside. For many of us, our little pieces of paradise have been hard won. Did the carpetbaggers think they could simply steal them from us?

We have the facts on our side. We have the truth on our side. All we need now is YOU.

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

 -- Mahatma Gandhi

"It's not whether you get knocked down: it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi 

Task Force membership is free. Please sign up today!

Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

© 2024   Created by Webmaster.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service