[geeks] electric cars

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
>> For example, when a hurricane knocks out power for a month, I still
>> need my car.  Things like that.
> 
> Unless your local gas station has a generator, you're still screwed;
> gasoline pumps run on electricity.  Yeah, maybe some oil company will bring
> in a tanker, and you can fill up from that, but that only seems to happen
> for major disasters, not the outages we have around here.  On this island,
> in the winter, you just fill up when you get down to half-a-tank.

I ran into that situation during the Great Blackout of 2003.  I couldn't 
get gas.  Just about the only thing in my neighborhood with power was 
the *one machine* that I left powered on and connected to my UPS.  I 
didn't want to screw up its uptime number.  8-)

Peace...  Sridhar