The Unforced Error of Plugin Vehicles

 Bill Buckner played major league baseball for 21 years. He was successful on many fronts, widely regarded as a workhorse, and set several records. But in Game 6, of the 1986 World Series, one play forever marked his career. Buckner was unable to stop an easy groundball hit by Mookie Wilson and lost the game. In my opinion, the good intentions of the Electric Vehicle Deployment Act (EVDA), threaten an unforced error for all work previously accomplished by…

Though electric cars date before the year 1900, man has either been unable or unwilling to deliver them in any meaningful volume.  I am happy to report that before the end of this year, all will change as the race to dominate electric cars has begun.

Nissan, Ford, and General Motors will be the first in the race but will be quickly followed by others.   In fact, within the next three years, almost every automaker in the world will offer a model with a plug while new automakers, like Tesla Motors…

When we drive our vehicles, an accepted cost is the taxation needed to build the roads and bridges that we utilize.  Every time South Carolinians pump gas, the state collects 16.8 cents per gallon while the federal government collects 18.4 cents.

Another tax we often forget is the money spent to secure the safe passage of foreign oil to our country.  We now have a reliable estimate of this amount from the Rand Corporation.  They published a study, which calculates the costs of securing the…