{"id":1608,"date":"2023-09-04T12:21:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T17:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:30:12","slug":"real-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2023\/09\/04\/real-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah Yes &#8211; The Real Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An incomprehensibly, incomparably, extortionate number of dollars will be needed                     <br>to see the local grids, transformers, power stations and transmission lines completed                        <br>to provide the power to feed the millions of roadside and homebound charger stations                        <br>to meet the eight year goal that half of all new cars sold to be electric across the nation.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yes it will be costly sayeth our Energy Department, excess of 125 billions needed   <br>and many more dollars than that for larger infrastructure upgrades to be completed,                         <br>and all that only to support a meager 10 percent more electric cars to be on the road.                       <br>Plus costly new rules for specialized steel for new transformers to carry heavier loads.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll need grid upgrades far north of trillions of dollar, imports of nickel and copper <br>and other assortments of minerals and metals for electrical upgrades all to be proper. <br>So I ask &#8211; where be the wise wizards who&#8217;ll make this all happen? They&#8217;ll all be hiding! <br>When things go bad the plan will be to simply draw less from the grid AND ration your drivin&#8217;!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(The Random Poet:03012024 <br>www.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An incomprehensibly, incomparably, extortionate number of dollars will be needed to see the local grids, transformers, power stations and transmission &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2023\/09\/04\/real-goal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ah Yes &#8211; The Real Goal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-observations","category-pre-nov-5-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2805,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/2805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}