We are just wrapping up the National Drive Electric week https://driveelectricweek.org/ ,
which was in effect a media blitz sponsored by various interested parties to
promote electric vehicle awareness.
Later in the week, I attended the stakeholder meeting for
the Kansas City Regional Clean Cities Coalition. In this meeting I heard of
partnerships between businesses and utilities to install charging kiosks at
various area employers’ locations. The
thought is that an electric commute may well be possible if the user has an
opportunity to plug in a charge while crunching spreadsheets upstairs.
We also discussed various companies and organizations
installing CNG stations, both private and public access. By virtue of my prior
employment, I was also aware of other entities considering installation, or who
have already entered agreement to install additional stations in my area.
The age is indeed upon us. In 1980 if someone had pulled me
to the side and said “Dan, sell your IBM stock. Alternate fuel cars are the
wave of the future,” I likely would have frisked them to see what type of
illicit drugs they were on. Today, I honestly feel you may be stoned if you
haven’t realized that gasoline and diesel are on the way out.
There is no embarrassment in this departure. In fact mineral,
fuels have owned road transportation for more than 120 years. If you start
figuring rail transportation into the mix, coal and oil burners, you realize we
have 230+ years relying on Fred Flintstone’s pet dinosaur Dino.
Oil isn’t going away overnight. But dinosaurs went extinct once,
and it will happen again.
Am I intimidated by this? Sure am. I have several decades learning the ins and outs of internal
combustion engines as we know them now.
Am I going to let that make me close my mind, shake my head
and say “Ain’t gonna happen”? Sure not. I’ve learned the unknown before, and I
will learn it again. I have confidence in my ability to adapt.
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