From Hot Air; DC, mid-Atlantic region could be without power several more days
"Last week, Energy Secretary Stephen Chu insisted that the government needed to subsidize electric vehicles to make them cheap enough to transform personal transportation away from fossil fuels. This week, people in Washington DC, Virginia, and several other states may beg to differ:"
....Thus we see the wisdom of energy diversity. Light rail and subways run on electricity, which is only stable and plentiful enough to supply that kind of power because of the use of coal and natural gas. (Emphasis gleefully added.)
"....On the other hand, those who have no other transportation options except electric are stuck inside the emergency area. Their vehicles don’t have the range to get them out of the disaster area, which means they have to be dependent on rationed supplies if their food supplies run low. They can’t easily get to distribution centers for that, either, at least not more than a couple of times, which means that emergency response teams eventually have to bring in gasoline-powered vehicles to reach them in a disaster."
"Last week, Energy Secretary Stephen Chu insisted that the government needed to subsidize electric vehicles to make them cheap enough to transform personal transportation away from fossil fuels. This week, people in Washington DC, Virginia, and several other states may beg to differ:"
....Thus we see the wisdom of energy diversity. Light rail and subways run on electricity, which is only stable and plentiful enough to supply that kind of power because of the use of coal and natural gas. (Emphasis gleefully added.)
"....On the other hand, those who have no other transportation options except electric are stuck inside the emergency area. Their vehicles don’t have the range to get them out of the disaster area, which means they have to be dependent on rationed supplies if their food supplies run low. They can’t easily get to distribution centers for that, either, at least not more than a couple of times, which means that emergency response teams eventually have to bring in gasoline-powered vehicles to reach them in a disaster."
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