Yup.
Electricity has to come from somewhere, and electric cars can't go 200 miles on
a charge. Not a perfect answer at all. But electric plants TEND to pollute
less than the average roadster. And they are easier to make clean- clean up
the 50 worst plants, and you've made a BIG dent in overall pollution...
And around here, if you charge at night, you use hydropower, since there's more
than is needed after 11 pm.
And my commute is 12 miles, total.
And an electric car uses less than 1/3 the energy of a piston- engined car- 1/3
of your gas goes out the radiator as heat, and most electric cars are pitifully
underpowered! Plus, at a stop, they emit nothing.
I started trying to convert a roadster to electric (I had a spare...)
but there isn't much room, and the roadster is terribly space- inefficient.
I got stalled on the project, but at one point, I'd figured that I could get a
BMW 2002 (much more battery- shaped and electric- drive friendly for those of
us without a machine shop) to go 60 miles between charges.
I went racing instead- I must hate the environment! But I still want an
electric car for the commuter- style driving that I do...
and save the roadster for the longer trips...
Toby
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From: Andy Cost <andycost@earthlink.net>
> > unfortunately,
> >topics like this get so politicized that both sides of the debate end
> >up skewing "facts" their way and spinning things out of control;
>
> I love how they blame big oil, Bush, Cheney, Haliburton, GM, and everyone
>else
> they can think of.
>
> I've always scoffed about the whole saving the environment arguement issue
>with
> electric cars. Where does the electricity come from? Coal burning power
> plants? Nuclear? Enron? Big greedy polluting corporations.
>
> In a free society the market place will dictate what products are purchased.
> People are willing pay big bucks for gas and pollute the atmosphere with
>SUV's.
> Until the people are ready to use less gas and (possibly) have less pollution
> then it isn't going to happen.
>
> I would think that $3 per gallon gas would have people lined up for electric
> cars and hybrids. The new hot money making product would be electric and
>hybrid
> cars. All auto makers would want to cash in (since they are big greedy
> corporations). What we actually see is limited demand and limited response
>by
> manufacturers.
>
> They attempt to make their research seem so credible. Did you check the
> resources they used? NY Times, LA Times, National Enquirer, Greenpeace. LOL!
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