To the editor:
It is pretty good when the government threatens the people to buy electric cars by getting rid of gasoline-powered cars.
You have to be a little wealthy to afford one. For one thing, if you have an accident and the battery catches fire or gets a crack in it, you would have to buy a new one, which would cost thousands of dollars. It would only take one accident for the car to explode or catch fire, and as far as your insurance is concerned, the premium would be costly.
Another thing: If you don't have a garage for your charging system, you would have to put some kind of security on it, because if you don't, there will be someone who will use it. Security or not, the government can't supply enough electricity for all of the electric cars in the United States, let alone when they see anything that uses gas, they want to get rid of it.
If everything turns electric, where are we getting it from? You can think of a big cruise ship running on batteries or an airplane flying with electric motors. I don't think that would work.
Gasoline is needed in the United States. There are millions of things that use gas, and we need it. They want to get rid of gas stoves and anything that uses natural gas. There is enough oil and gas under ground to make the United States independent.
Ron Fullerton
Toronto