What is going on?

The used car market is going crazy?

No, people who are retiring, are buying up the makes and models of vehicles they had when they were young and restoring them.  

The interesting part about this, is that many of us are still using these vehicles as daily drivers, tree debris trucks to haul away branches from our yards, or keeping them ourselves to restore.

The older guard is passing away or going into rest homes, and their Model T's, and A's are no longer worth as much because the demand is less.  But, those of us who grew up in the 60s and 70's are seeing If we can snag a 1973 Chrysler Newport, or a 1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass because we have so many fond memories of learning to drive in those old boats. 

And, of course the other thing that is happening, is that the price of new vehicles are out of range for many of us.  Therefore we are repairing our vehicles.  And, the gap between those of us who can afford new, and those of us who cannot, is growing.  The evidence of this is the a growing market of companies buying cars that are damaged and finding buyers wanting to repair them.  

Just a few years ago I would sell a vehicle with a bad engine that the customer no longer wanted for salvage price.  Now, there is a chance the customer can sell that same vehicle, through a company that is looking for buyer, for 10 times that amount.

Look it up.  That dead vehicle in your driveway might be worth more than you think.

Changing power distribution

 If we are to all use electric vehicles, then we should not have protested against those huge power lines that utilities wanted to build back in the 1970's and 1980's. If we would have built them, we would be much closer to be able to transfer power to everyone's charging station in their garage.

But we did not.  

The ability to switch from using energy from liquid fuels, to electric fuel, for our vehicles, at this time is insurmountable.  

To have several electric cars in a community of 2000 people, to having all electric cars, and having them all charge their vehicles overnight, instead of them filling up at the pump, could easily overload the electric system for that town. And that is not taking into effect the added energy transfer to electric, of industry in that city for all their trucks and equipment.  That is simply not a working proposition at this time.

The ability to move energy consumption from fuel stations, to the electric grid, does not exist at this time.

In addition: On another note in Kansas at this time, one of the main suppliers of electric power has kept their main coal station going, and added three others to keep up with the demand of electric power(which includes the increased use of electric vehicles. How green is that?).  

So, to finally end my musings on electric vehicles; they are clean(maybe on the user end), quiet, and easy to operate.  But to pull all that power from the grid, instead of the oil industry, is going to be a huge challenge, if not a fantasy.