[bitterohiogunclinger]

“I’ve never understood the almost automatic disapproval many FReepers exhibit regarding electric vehicles or even gas/electric hybrids.”
Perhaps you fail to appreciate the disdain many conservatives have for ideas that are ginned up as an excuse to promote the “green” agenda, which basically is based on propaganda and designed to turn us back into a pre-industrial society? If “green” is about good energy vs “bad” energy, why are they desperately trying to destroy hydroelectric generation capacity? Don't follow the hype. Look into the “who” behind the propaganda. Even the founder of Greenpeace left because he recognized the “true” agenda of the lefties that have taken control.

[RegulatorCountry]

I don’t automatically accept anyone’s rationale. The “green” agenda is clearly a crock that cannot exist outside govenment subsidy and penalizing alternatives. That does not mean, however, that every single thing promoted as being “green” is bad. I don’t care about carbon emissions. I do care about cars, and there are some pretty cool ones that just happen to be electric. For example, Fisker and Tesla.