Five Miles an Hour

Often I think that we in the Tea Party are the last stand of sanity in America. When sanity is hiding in a closet, how can we coax her into the light? The universities in America contain professors like the one in American history who justifies expanding state power and big government as right, meet, proper and just patriotism. Big corporations are into the business of making money from a liberal agenda. Morgan Stanley, for example, claims in an ad that “little minds need big meals. Claiming one out of every four children in this country struggles to get enough food for their bodies and minds to develop properly.” Corruption invades the ballot box. High school students in Cincinnati were escorted to the polls to early vote a straight Democrat ticket. A final insanity - WIC vouchers can no longer purchase potatoes because they are fattening.

How depressing! Here’s an example of the unkindest cut of all from government’s intrusion into our choices. The mandated electric cars. E-cars receive $5 billion in tax credits to buyers and subsidized loans and grants to auto makers. Car-charging stations, however, will be at taxpayer’s expense. A company ECOtality has been given $11.5 million in federal contract dollars to set up 15,000 charging points in 16 metro areas by next September. A spokesman says that “if chargers were installed in parking garages, valets could rotate care on and off the chargers and make sure electric cars don’t get blocked from the chargers by conventional vehicles.” He continues: ”Car owners may pay by swiping a card. Perhaps an annual fee such as $25. Maybe $5 a charge.” Get the picture of more money flowing into Washington? Also, this company plans to “test different pricing structures to see how consumers respond.”

And how many miles could you travel after juicing up on a 120 volt, 20 amp charger ( a typical home outlet)for one hour? Five! Five! For Tezla’s sake ( my version of salty language) a mere five miles! I can hear her now: “E-car from earth to Eco politicians from outer space. You’re telling me that for a 20 mile round trip to town and back, I must spend 4 hours plugged into a charger? Where’s time for my night life? Insanity, I tell you, insanity. Oh, you government ‘know betters’ say my owner could purchase a $2,500, 240 volt, 40 amp charger instead?”