XPost: can.politics, ont.politics, tor.general
XPost: bc.politics
From: ericŪ@hardknocks.edu
Peter White wrote . . .
>
>
> penny wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:10:19 GMT, Peter White
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >>penny wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:12:22 GMT, "Chom Noamsky" wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>"penny" wrote in message
> >>>>news:jfrri21lgq6o808bei8844t1vqbjpadefa@4ax.com...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>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.
> >>>>
> >>>>The economics are not there, manufacturers simply haven't been able to
> >>>>produce an all-electric car that will perform as well as one driven by a
> >>>>combustion engine.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>Who killed the electric car especially since as well as being so
> >>>>>environmentally friendly it was such a winner for consumers.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>That is a total myth unless all electricity comes from clean renewable
> >>>>sources like solar, wind, hydro, which it does not. Most electricity
comes
> >>>
> >>>>from dirty old coal and nuclear sources, so all you're doing is changing
the
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>source of pollution from the tailpipe to the generating plant.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>True, but it's not necessarily a myth if you ratchet up your vision a
> >>>bit.
> >>>
> >>>The zero emission electric car is ideal and desperately needed for
> >>>polluted cities .
> >>>
> >>>The energy source industry can be out in the sticks far away from
> >>>people while the zero emissions car runs clean in cities.
> >>>
> >>> It's a way of cleaning up air pollution and cutting down on the
> >>>inordinate amount of respiratory health problems suffered by
> >>>many people living in cities. .Thousands of people across this country
> >>>die from a whole range of respiratory problems exacerbated by
> >>>pollution.
> >>>
> >>>As for global warming emissions, what is also needed is more money
> >>>spent on renewable energy by the head-in-the-sand industries that
> >>>produce 50% of the fossil fuel emissions in Canada.. It should be
> >>>compulsory that they use at least 10% of their profits for renewables
> >>>research and development so that the energy for the zero emission cars
> >>>,etc., is a lot cleaner , etc. etc.
> >>>
> >>>It's just a question of ideological factors, vision, will, R&D
> >>> and Money !! And I shouldn't forget Motivation ! And the
> >>>motivation is the worsening global warming situation.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>Since the electric car has no engine it saves the driver the cost of
> >>>>>replacing parts, motor oil, filters and spark plugs. Wear and tear
> >>>>>of braking systems are absolutely minimal. Yet , the electric car is
> >>>>>dead. Automakers seem to have written it off.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>An electric motor has moving parts and is subject to mechanical wear and
> >>>>tear just like any other machine. Also, the storage devices are complex
> >>>>electro-chemical devices that are expensive to maintain and replace.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>An electric car is much simpler to look after. It needs no gas, no
> >>>oil change, no muffler and minimal brake maintenance. A typical
> >>>check-up would consist of topping up the windshield washer fluid and
> >>>rotating the tires. .
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>The answer to who killed the car is obviously greed and the following
> >>>>>article will elaborate somewhat:
> >>>>
> >>>>The answer is economic unviability has killed the electric car. Until
some
> >>>>new technology for batteries comes along they will be more or less
> >>>>"semi-green toys."
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Tesla Motors is the team of the future - named after the brilliant
> >>>Nikola Tesla.
> >>
> >>
> >>Why do I recoil at mention of that name?
> >
> >
> > Tell me !
>
>
> Sure tell you and let 'the sparks fly'.
Penny: voted can.politics poster least likely to 'get' a joke.
Eric
ryevpx@hfn.arg
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