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How PHEVs and EVs Will Sabotage America's Drive for Energy Independence

I can not believe that the element lithium is any long term constraint on it broad scale use in electric storage devices. It is not a rare element and easily recovered as I understand it.

Now the design and reliability of the lithium battery may be a question and the scam of throwing money away to friends and neighbors in battery systems development by our Federal Government is historical fact. None the less lithium availability should not be a LT problem.

And then there are the "Ultra Capacitors" I suppose.

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The real change for lower cost electricity, via load leveling, wil arrive when the Regulatory agencies from FERC on down to the State levels demand that the consumer/homeowner be given an option for realistic time of day metering.

Back in the 70's such a system was proposed but so adamantly opposed by the generating industry that they killed a bill mandating a parallel privilge to those available to industry for the residential user . The Senate refused to go to conference with the House Bill unless the section was removed.

Gib=ve the residential consumer such an option of low cost electricity and they will run their dryers and washing machines with an off peak timer. Refrigerators could be so designed to effect real savings as can hot water systems. Europe does this with ease and no complaints. Why not we? Greed not public service.