Not So Fast With Those Electric Cars

Townhall.com ^ | July 8, 2009

[Kaslin]

Ping

[Francis McClobber]

A Captain Obvious moment of clarity.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

...uh ... Has the author heard of nuclear energy? Couple it with electric cars, problem solved.

[JoanneSD]

Plug into your garage over nite.... I dont have a garage, and would need a 100 foot cord, made out of oil bi products, to run to my car, and hope nobody steals the cord over night..and some people live in 100 story hi rises, that will be handy.. run an extension cord down in front over every ones scenic view...

[mamelukesabre]

Even with coal, it’s still a good idea...provided they come up with some decent batteries. I don’t see that happening for at least 25 more years though.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I’m all for nuke plants.

And the bonus is, if we go nuke for domestic electricity, we won’t need electric cars.

Give me a good old fashioned V8.

[dangus]

Read the whole article; he’s calling for nuclear power development.

[phormer phrog phlyer]

They need to sprinkle pixie dust on this problem, that will solve it. Oh I forgot, they also need to use that magic wand.

[Kaslin]

did you look at the car in the editorial? I would rather walk before I would get into something like that

[wastedyears]

It will hopefully cause people to drive gas guzzlers more if they can afford it.

[mamelukesabre]

Gimme a break. It wouldn’t be too hard to run power in an underground conduit to a recharging station at every parking spot. Parking meters with electrical outlets.

[jessduntno]

[wastedyears]

Don’t give them any ideas.

[freedumb2003]

They are JUST NOW realizing this basic fact?

God, the cost of smug sure is high!

[mamelukesabre]

You’d change your mind after the first few days. Unless you are incredibly dense.

[ChildOfThe60s]

There are a multitude of reasons that electric cars are no solution as the technology exists right now.

But the “greenhouse gas” argument is complete and utter hogwash.

As I have pointed out many times over the last 30 years, most of the pie in the sky so called greener solutions are in the big picture, dirtier than coal and oil. And the GG portion of the argument is a hoax.

[gogogodzilla]

Problem is that electric cars are not rechargeable in the same timeframe that gasoline cars are. That, and they are more expensive.

Gas fillup = 5 minutes
Electric fillup = ???

If the alternative is less capable and more expensive, people will not switch.

[ChildOfThe60s]

As physicist Amory Lovins once put it, "Zero-emission vehicles are actually 'elsewhere-emission' vehicles."

I so love that sentence. What more needs to be said?