XPost: can.politics, ont.politics, tor.general
XPost: bc.politics
From: gone@rural.ca
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:06:09 GMT, Peter White
wrote:
>
>
>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.
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>
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>This Baker is one pretentious mouth isn't he?
>I wonder where he expects the increased fuel economy of the hybrids
>comes from?
From the greatest Scam since Y2K, that's where. The economics of the
Hybrids is a colossal joke and in the not too distant future, buyers
will wake up to the very false economy involved in their purchase and
economics will drive future auto markets, not con jobs. The general
public will not continue to buy vehicles to satisfy Political
Correctness.
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