Truth about the electric car.

I like what you said, but that's still not the right question. I mean, there has to be a reason for using less energy and resources, or else no one will do it. At the personal level, the question would be something like, "How can I get from A to B comfortably, quickly, and affordably?" Or, for a more idealistic person, "How can I take care of my transportation needs without killing the planet or making myself miserable?"

 

So say I decide to drive a small VW diesel to cut my fuel costs in half. Where am I going to be at in 5-10 years when the price of gas has doubled again? EV's have great potential, their biggest problem right now is lack of support and interest. Going the easiest possible fossil fuel route until the very end is going to be absolutely disastrous. Keep driving on gas and dreaming someone's going to pull a bio-fuel miracle out of their ass in the 11th hour and well, you don't have a fucking clue what you're in for!

 

Exactly, and that's why it is so important for the government to ease the transition to a sustainable, least-cost, safe energy future. The transition needs to be gradual or else there will be terrible economic consequences. This is the complete opposite of what the Republicans are saying.

 

Something that cant be applied to all parts of life is not really a solution. Im still pretty surre that electricity isnt the right thing at the moment. To produce electricity you need to use alot of other resources. Okay, lets say, in 15 years time, 50 precent of the electricity would be produced by wind turbines, now, first of all, could you imagine how much of the bird population would die then ? Or if hydro energy, how the sea life would suffer? The solar panel is the only thing that would work, and it too starts to give more than it took in about 6 years time, and until we cant find actually a way to produce enough sustainable electricity to power the planet, let alone all of the vehicles, its not really an option. And it still doest not actually solve the issue how would we produce those electric cars, because the running of electric dump trucks to electric freight ships on electricity would be catastrophic.

 

Also , if in the future cars would get like 160 mpg in city on diesel, it isnt really that much and that kind of demand could be feeded on vegetable oil or bio diesel. And its good that the prices would be high, people would use cars only if they really need to. Also, the electric vehicle , especially in warm climate is pretty useless, why not drive a bycicle instead? The long distance trains and buses have become really comfortable, and you could take your bike with you.