Home, Home on the Range Anxiety

There will always be those who drive the advancement of technological toy making by wanting to be the one who has the latest toy.

Folks these days believe the electric car is something new.

Electric cars and trucks have been with us since there were cars and trucks.

Yep – over 100 years !

What is new is being arrested for charging your car.

Especially in Georgia.

If you have a middle school kid who has tennis lessons after school and you find yourself waiting with a Nissan Leaf that could use a little juice …

… don’t plug your car into the school. Especially in Georgia.

This guy probably thought he was quite clever buying that car.

But now he suffers from a 21st century plague that is sweeping those who believe they are environmentally friendly when they are hurting the planet worse than if they had bought a V8 SUV –

RANGE ANXIETY !!!

He plugs his car into the school while waiting for his son to finish his tennis lesson.

Apparently, the way the story goes, a cop strolls by and sees his extension cord from his car to a power outlet at the school.

A week later, the man is arrested at his home for stealing a nickel’s worth of electricity.

Yes – ARRESTED with all the accoutrements that consist of a criminal arrest. Like chaffed wrists …

What if some day every parent every day plugged their car into the school for a nickel’s worth of electricity ?

They would be charged (*groan*) with a crime.

What if we plug in a cell phone to charge at work ?

Is that considered employee theft ?

What about this –

You take a napkin at a fast food restaurant or a couple of packs of ketchup.

You have a pack of ketchup and one napkin left over after eating. You take them with you. Did you just steal from the restaurant? Isn’t that better than throwing them away?

Not the same?

What if you filled a drinking bottle with water from the school’s fountain ?

All that considered, without warning, that guy gets arrested for a nickel’s worth of electric power –

While at the same time …

… there are people watching newly released movies streaming on the internet from web sites that are making money with click-ads and the movies are pirated copies.

The movie pirates cannot be touched because laws are still in the middle of legislation.

Hopefully that will be corrected very soon.

But concerning the 21st century problem of range anxiety …

I can see in the not too distant future …

That the free market will come to the rescue.

Someone will start a business providing something similar to a parking meter where you can park you car to go shopping or while waiting to pick up your kid from tennis lessons.

You can drop in a coin and charge your car for a set length of time.

The place where the juice is flowing gets a few cents – the company who made the meters get a few cents and the car owner looses their range anxiety.

By the way –

Yes … electric cars were introduced along with early cars. It was before someone found a way to make an engine that could run on a waste by-product of refining oil – called gasoline – that was usually burned off or poured into the ground.

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