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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-10-17 00:47:08 +0000, Bobbie Sellers said:   
   > On 10/16/25 16:08, Your Name wrote:   
   >> On 2025-10-16 16:46:53 +0000, Bobbie Sellers said:   
   >>>   
   >>> As for the electric vehicles they solve a big problem in California   
   >>> which is the price of the gasoline used in IC vehicles.  If widely   
   >>> enough adopted they may permit a modicum of the civilization we are   
   >>> used to to continue for some time before the rise in Global   
   >>> Temperatures make continuing to waste oxygen on IC engines clearly   
   >>> dangerous.   
   >>   
   >> I'm assuming you mean the price of petrol goes up as fewer people buy   
   >> it, which is probably true since the petrol station and companies still   
   >> need to make the same profit from fewer customers.   
   >   
   > 	No in California we use specially formulated gasoline to help reduce   
   > toxic emmissions.  So of course the refineries change more for gasoline   
   > made according to California standards.  By the way that is for the season   
   > where lots of driving happens.  At other time the gasoline used is not   
   > specially formulated and the Fossil Fuel profiteers keep the prices up   
   > to what the market will bear.   
      
   Different formulations of petrol have been around for a long time, long   
   before the push for electric cars became a fad.   
      
      
      
   >> The problem is that more electric cars also means the elctric companies   
   >> have to produce more electricity, which means they have to spend more   
   >> money to meet that increasing demand, and therefore will charge   
   >> EVERYONE more for the elctricity.   
   >>   
   >> It's pretty much a lose-lose situation.   
   >   
   > 	So far gasoline is much more expensive than electricity.   
   > 	The electrical generation companies are increasing their capacities so   
   > that they have more to sell to the people living in the hotter areas of   
   > California in the Summer.   
   >   
   > 	bliss   
      
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