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XPost: bc.politics
From: springpig@ns.sympatico.ca
Alan Baker wrote:
> 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.
This Baker is one pretentious mouth isn't he?
I wonder where he expects the increased fuel economy of the hybrids
comes from?
He has no notion of the increased efficiency of an electric
motor as compared to a mechanical motor, in fact the only motor he has
familiarity with is his own motor mouth.
The Toyota Prius, comparable with a Camery 4, has a mileage of about 48
- 50 MPG.
The only source of energy is the gasoline used to fire the Echo engine.
Ah but I forget, he doesn't claim to be a technician, he claims to be an
economist!
>
>
>>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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>
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