Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars

Re:Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars by vel0city on Sunday October 06, 2024 @09:51PM (#41762031)

I've actually lived through evacuations of a major metro area...twice.

Both times gasoline quickly became incredibly hard to come by. Electricity would have been a lot easier.

Also, there was massive amounts of traffic trying to leave. An idling car slowly creeping through a 100mi traffic jam still uses a good bit of gas. An EV uses very little energy slowly rolling in the same situation. Sure at normal speeds I would have easily had 300+mi in the gas cars, but my mileage in traffic was massively worse on the 14+ hour drive from Houston to San Antonio.

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Re:Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars by _hyn3 on Monday October 07, 2024 @09:54AM (#41766039)

I have as well, in hurricane zones, but electricity was out for multiple weeks, but gasoline was still available (if quite expensive due to market forces, but of course that meant that there were still a few gallons available for everyone.)

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Re:Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars by vel0city on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @01:58PM (#41780003)

And here come the headlines about gas shortages in Florida. Many hours of idling to go <100mi, stranding cars along the highway. Meanwhile, EVs still charging just fine.

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