[geeks] electric cars

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:15:31 -0700
"Sheldon T. Hall" <shel at tandem.artell.net> wrote:

> Who Killed the Electric Car

Interesting, but it points fingers at people who really had little to
do with the problem.

The consumers (they used to be customers, sigh) rejected the idea
because it simply didn't work.

A lot of people, myself included, rejected the zero emissions laws
because they are based on lies, just like the Kyoto protocol.

As another poster said, electric cars are definitely not zero emission,
they merely change the location of the emissions (*).

I would agree with the movie about oil companies and others not being
happy about electric cars, but that's just not the whole story.  First
we need an electric car that really works, and it should be *cheaper*
than gasoline cars not more expensive.  We also need an infrastructure
and support technology to make it just as reliable as a gasoline car.

For example, when a hurricane knocks out power for a month, I still
need my car.  Things like that.

Electric cars have yet to deliver, which is the biggest reason they
aren't catching on.  

* Lot's of laws and ideas are like this.  For example, the Kyoto
Protocol is similarly based on lies.  It sounds like something you
should believe in, until you take a look and realize that it merely
redistributes pollution rather than prevent it.




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