"Ted Striker" wrote in message
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:12:51 -0500, "Roger (K8RI)"
wrote:

Blah blah blah, now why is it your entire dissertation is all about the
negatives of
driving an electric car. The obvious is that you worry if electric car use
becomes more
widespread, you might have to pay more for your electricity. Too bad. I
live in an area
where the cost is 7cents a kwh, and is generated by a nuke plant. So goes
your coal
fired worries. And why do you think anyone else is so concerned about
which fuel makes a
certian amount of polution. You think whether or not it makes you happy or
not is going
to have any bearing on the decision to use an electric car? I'm going to
get one anyway,
strain the power grid charging it up, don't care how much the power
company polutes
making the juice to charge it up either. Not everyone is so big picture
minded about the
whole affair as you are. I would love to be able to get around my local
area and never
pull into the gas station and pay the current price of gas.

IMHO, Roger's points were well taken. Most of the "solutions" we see
bandied about are scams.

OTOH, this is a great time to play around with both electrics and
hybrids--before the limitations and problems become well known and also
before both money and permits are required to turn the batteries back in.

BTW, there is another form of hybrid that works quite well--using an
internal combustion engine and an electric drive system. The railroads have
been using them quite successfully for the past half of a century. They have
tremendous pulling power at low speeds, but don't have the high speed
acceleration and hill climbing power that we currently demand from our cars.
So, some infrastructure changes would be needed--mostly in the form of
longer acceleration ramps on the expressways.

Peter