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Subject: flaw in your electric car plans
Yo, Bart!
props for turning your attention to the BP oil spill and to the need for alternative energy.
but I feel compelled to point something out about
electric cars and alternative energy that
nobody seems to be getting, and which is
absent from the comments of yours on the subject which I have read.
and that is that, while electricity itself may
be clean, it must still be generated BY something.
Until we have the windmills and solar panels
up, that something will either be coal, gas, oil or nukes.
and what about those windmills and solar panels?
Factories that make that equipment require power, too,
and until we have manufactured enough panels
and windmills to power the factories that make panels and
windmills, they, too, will be powered, ultimately
by....
.....coal, gas, oil or nukes.
"Electric cars" is a very seductive, attractive
shelter to crawl into when you look around at what we've done
with the oil-based lifestyle and what that
costs us and the planet, but electric power doesn't enable you to
escape the problem of generating the power and
manufacturing the equipment that uses it.
and let's say we have cloudy, windless days? will
people be happy to stay home and read a book or tend
to their conversation skills? Hell, no!
They'll demand the ability to drive their (electric?) cars, and that means
firing up the coal, gas, oil or nukes generating
plants!!!
I know that it's extremely scary to most people
the very notion of driving less, or not driving at all.
Most people out there would probably rather
knife granny than give up driving.
but give it up we will, whether it's Peak Oil
that intervenes, environmental collapse, or (gasp!) our brains.
rock on bro!
skip
I got a bunch of letters like this and I can't figure out why.
Yes, I actually knew that coal and oil are used to create electricity, but that's not the point.
Since I have zero time for research, I'm forced
to make uneducated, IQ-of-64 guesses.
It's my guess that electric cars use about 50%
less
gas than combustion engine cars.
Are you saying a 50% reduction of oil imports wouldn't make much of an environmental difference?
I say you're wrong.
And if Obama would stop talking about solar
energy and give out $10,000 tax credit for every
homeowner who puts $15,000 worth of solar panels
on their roof, that number could drop to 25%
We either want to get off oil or we don't - its that simple.
As long as Exxon-Mobil is making $3B a month tax free,
the crooks in congress will keep us on the oil teat.
Why are
we still hooked on oil?
Exxon-Mobil made $35 Billion
dollars
in tax free profits last
year.
Exxon-Mobil is bad for America.