New McDonald's to include recharging stations for electric cars

How nice of them.
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Why not put the re-charge at state unemployment locations and other points of bureaucracy?

If Obama's energy policy does not change and we pass Cap and Trade having an electric outlet will be useless. We will not have enough electrictly to power our businesses or homes much less 100 million electric cars.

Good Luck finding electric car chargers, since the companies that were making them, have quite making since their was no market tfor them.
One reason GM quite making their electric car in the in the 2002's, in addition no one was buying them.

Neat...but they should build wind turbines or solar charging stations so that the power doesn't come from dirty coal.

Um... Did anyone else notice that the third paragraph is the same as the fourth? I know that doesn't bother some people, but it is bugging the crap out of me. And the fact that it is happening more and more bugs me. Hmmm... Maybe AOL needs to make sure these stories are EDITED before they post them. Too many countries already think we are stupid, ignorant American's. Let's not give them more fuel...

So who exactly is going to pay for this electricity? And the increased rates imposed by cap and trade? There is nothing in the article about that. Used to be one could charge their laptop at some coffee shops. No longer. Businesses notice TREMENDOUS increases in their utility consumption, and realized it was from people using their electronic equipment while they sipped their lattes. They were earning money while the coffee house was paying for it. I quit going to any place that allows select patrons "free" extras while they charge users and non-users the same for their services and products.

"The Stella EV employs what is know as fast charge lithium-ion batteries. The batteries are capable of being charged to 80% capacity in as little as 15 minutes, getting you back on the road in no time." from the Stella link at the end of the article.

quite = completely, wholly, or entirely

quit = give up

quiet = shhh

etc ...

how is adding car recharging outlets "green"? it only adds to the demands of the power grid that is supplied by nuclear and coal - - both of which obama wants to shitcan. there is no such thing as "green" jobs or a "green" economy; it's all just marketing wordsmithing.

Um... ...this is in North Carolina. How many EV vehicles do they really have over there?!? Im in a huge metroplex and I havent seen one. The only thing that comes close are hybrids, and theyre hybrids, they recharge themself. I tell you wants going to happen. Theyre going to remove yet another parking space for us to use. I have already seen it at some places years ago. A special parking space upfront for electric vehicles. There is no electrical outlet where they absolutely need that space. And just like with handicap spots, vehicles that park in it dont qualify, and dont get penalized. As a business person what are you going to do? tick off a customer?

I see two things happening:

1) idiots are going to park in the spots with non EV vehicles, probably because things like that are always up front. This will cause EV owners to not be able to recharge. This will also cause good innocent drivers to become annoyed at both EV vehicles and those who park there

2) the idea becomes successful, and now you have 4 handicap spots and 4 EV spots... ...where do you park? At the grocery store across the street

good grief . . . let the dolts who buy the little putt putts charge them on their own dime . . . i don't want to know that everything i buy at mcd's a portion of the cost will be going to subsidize these feel good charging stations.

Just how many electric cars do you see on the street every day? I don't see any.
Who is going to pay for this service? Someone has to pay the electric bill. Will it be be owner of the car or the prices go up to pay for this??

When the two big problems of all electric cars are solved (range and quick re-charge), McDonalds will be ahead of the curve again.

electric cars are not green, batteries are not green (heavy metals) fossil fuels are used to generate electricity,so how is it electric cars can be green?

If the government thinks we are running out of oil, fuel to fill our cars, how can they think french fry grease will be enough to meet our needs? While our electric bills haven't gone up near as much as our natural gas bills, how many charges can you get on your car before your electric bill will be sky high as well? The govenment should never play chess because they don't even seem to think one step ahead as is evidenced by the toilets we have that need to be flushed 2 or 3 times because they have EPA approved smaller water tanks. Either that or they are deliberately sabotaging our way of life. How can that be? Democrats are in power & they "care about people."

Seems like a waste of resources to me, by previous posts. How about an additonal trash can for recycled items, plates, cups, bottles, utensils ect... ? Let's start there.

So, now, McDonalds has bought into the manmade global warming? Hell, I thought they had smart people running the company.

now add an attatchment to it with filtered, used fryer grease and you'd really have something.

MEMO TO EVERY INTELLIGENT FREE-THINKING AMERICAN, and TO OBAMA: CAP & TRADE IS PERHAPS THE MOST ANTI-FREE MARKET, ANTI-AMERICAN LEGISLATION EVER SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED BY CONGRESS. FURTHER, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO CREDIBLE EVIDENCE THAT ANYTHING WE DO WILL SUBSTANTIALLY CHANGE OR STOP "GLOBAL WARMING". FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS BEFORE MAN, THERE HAVE BEEN MAJOR NATURAL CYLES OF GLOBAL COOLING AND WARMING. DON'T ATTACK AND BURDEN THE AMERICAN BUSINESSES WHICH PROVIDE JOBS AND A HIGH STANDARD OF LIVING IN THE USA, FOR SOMETHING WHICH MAY "FEEL GOOD" BUT HAS NO CHANCE OF MAKING ANY REAL STATISTICAL DIFFERENCE IN GLOBAL WARMING. THIS WILL EXPORT EVEN MORE JOBS OUT OF AMERICA, ALL FOR ALMOST NO MEASURABLE CLIMATE IMPROVEMENT. CALL YOUR SENATOR. VOTE NO.