XPost: can.politics, ont.politics, tor.general
XPost: bc.politics
From: alangbaker@telus.net
In article ,
ar231@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Karen Gordon) wrote:
> >> > "penny" wrote in message
> >> >
> >> >> Who killed the electric car -- a crime of mammoth proportions with
> >> >> consequences for our environment.
> >> >>
> >> >> Electric cars produce zero emissions and therefore don't contribute to
> >> >> the global warming disaster. They were a key invention in dealing
> >> >> with global warming. Yet they have disappeared from the market
> >> >> place.
>
> >> "pcourterelle" (someone@ms.com) writes:
> >> > ABarlow and Chom have patiently explained why the electric car is
> >> > neither an
> >> > environmentally friendly option for reducing green-house gases as you
> >> > claim
>
> >> (K): You're kidding. right? Usenet posters have become the definitive
> >> experts on the electric car and its viability? You must be a mighty
> >> confused little man if you're taking your direction from posters rather
> >> than
> >> the experts.
> >> Electric cars are one of the solutions to the problems of petrol-fuelled
> >> cars. Although they are only at a relatively embryonic stage in terms of
> >> market penetration, electric cars represent the most environmentally
> >> friendly vehicle fuel, as they have absolutely no emissions.
>
> Eric Schild (ericŪ@hardknocks.edu) writes:
> > Yes - you just plug 'em in and the electricity from the Big Electricity
> > Man in the sky fuels 'em up
>
> (K): Silly boy ..... you probably believe in the 'man in the moon' and
> fairies with pixie dust, too.
>
> You can fuel automobiles with poisonous emission-producing gasoline and oil,
> or you can fuel it with electricity from hydro power and solar power. If
> you think the first is superior to the latter, I recommend you shut yourself
> in a garage with the former - and your opponents in a garage with the latter.
You could, if hydro power and solar power were available in sufficient
quantity to provide the energy necessary to replace even a relatively
small fraction of our current motor vehicles with electrics.
They're not. So, instead, you get marginal electrical generation having
to be increased: coal-fired plants, natural gas, etc.
All you're doing is transferring the fossil fuel emissions from one
location to another.
>
> A simple solution to two problems.... carbon monoxide from the vehicle and
> hot air from a dummy.
>
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> The electric car accelerates so much faster, it makes the Ferrari look
> like a bicycle.
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