[DB]

Well this is just plain wrong.

Yes, he's using less gasoline but he's replacing that gas savings with increased electricity usage. Nowhere did he pick up any efficiency. I.E. using less energy to go from point A to point B.

The electrical generation system in this country, particularly California is already overtaxed. Electricity generation has to use fuel of some sort too. We've been moving towards using natural gas to generate electricity and that's why natural gas has become so expensive. There isn't enough natural gas to power all the cars here (there have been shortages already).

The "engineer" in this article has only transfered his energy needs to someone else. Dumb.

The only way this would actually help is if we start building many more large nuclear power plants. Only then could we reduce our energy dependence from overseas. Otherwise he's simply transfered his gasoline energy needs to natural gas, oil and coal. And San Francisco is the same place that refuses to allow building of any new power plants near by...

[SampleMan]

Well this is just plain wrong.

Exactly!

My Suburban gets great mileage on the downslope of mountains. So to radically increase gas mileage, I simply start all my trips from the top of a mountain. Sort of the opposite of when I was a kid and had to walk up hill to school both ways.

[Melas]

Electricty has the possibilty of being generated by renewable resources. Skipping the pie in the sky promises of wind and solar, hydrogenerators and nuclear reactors are realites that produce enormous amounts of energy.