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Bjorn Lomborg: Green Cars Have a Dirty Little Secret: Charging means heavy carbon-dioxide emissions
Wall Street Journal ^
| 03/11/2013
| Bjorn Lomborg
Posted on 03/11/2013 6:47:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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TAKE NOTE: The production of the electric car has already resulted in sizeable emissionsthe equivalent of 80,000 miles of travel in the vehicle.
To: SeekAndFind
When you see someone with a hybrid or electric car you should say, “Nice ride! Does she run on coal or nuclear?”
To: SeekAndFind
Beyond the WSJ Mr. Lomborg’s views will never be published by the Obama media.
About Bjorn Lomborg
Dr. Bjorn Lomborg researches the smartest ways to improve the environment and the world. He is one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world, one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century according to Esquire magazine, and one of the 50 people who could save the planet according to the UK Guardian. Lomborg has repeatedly been named one of Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers.
http://www.lomborg.com/
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posted on
03/11/2013 6:52:20 AM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: SeekAndFind
they have another filthy secret and that was told to me by my kid’s shop teacher o parent’s night:
the batteries are so powerful they can electrocute a mechanic, therefore the kids were not going to be working on them, but would work on the shop teacher’s Porsche.
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posted on
03/11/2013 6:54:29 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: SeekAndFind
A huge percentage (I think I've read 40% plus) of this nation's electricity is generated by coal fired plants.Osama Obama has openly promised to bankrupt the coal industry and his EPA is,I've read,well on its way to keeping that promise.So,we'll either be charging those cars with relative “dirty” power or we won't have enough power to charge them...thanks to all the power plants that will be shut down.
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posted on
03/11/2013 6:56:59 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
("Progressives" toss the word "racist" around like chimps toss their feces)
To: Gay State Conservative
To: SeekAndFind
“... Ah, I see, you’ve got one of those new coal cars!”
I’ve tried saying it. It produces dumbfounded looks of confusion.
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posted on
03/11/2013 7:03:36 AM PDT
by
aMorePerfectUnion
(Gone rogue, gone Galt, gone international, gone independent. Gone.)
To: KeyLargo
And, he’s still a “greenie”. But at least he tells the truth (as he sees it) with usually a lot of research done to support his position. Thinkin’ he isn’t one of the eco-wackos favorite people anymore. Or maybe hasn’t been for quite a while because he speaks the truth. Of course it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure the charging energy for your prius gotta come from someplace. Or your chevy volt or whatever hybrid you choose. Me? Filled the Ram up yesterday and figured the mileage. 15mpg of plant lovin’ emissions to help feed my plant friends so they can make us some more oxygen. Hey, just doin’ my part to counter algores noxious spewage.
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posted on
03/11/2013 7:06:10 AM PDT
by
rktman
(BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST MR. PRESIDENT!(not that we'd get the truth!))
To: SeekAndFind
I went to a Telsa "dealer" (in a mall,no less) the other day and talked to the salesman.More than $80K for a car that,under *ideal* conditions,can go 300 miles between charges.Ideal meaning no traffic...55mph...no a/c...no heat...no hills.And a full charge using 110v takes 22 hours...using 220v it takes 9 hours.
My diesel has a range of 800 miles at a steady 70mph and takes about 5 minutes to fully "recharge" at any one of about 50,000 "charging stations" in the country.And it cost much,*much* less than $80K.
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posted on
03/11/2013 7:06:18 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
("Progressives" toss the word "racist" around like chimps toss their feces)
To: Gay State Conservative
We’ve also heard some nightmare stories this winter. Batteries don’t like cold.
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posted on
03/11/2013 7:06:38 AM PDT
by
chiller
(NBCNews et al is in the tank and should be embarrassed)
To: Gay State Conservative
No worries,
THIS is the car Obama will have us all driving in a few years:
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posted on
03/11/2013 7:13:21 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
To: aMorePerfectUnion
Liberalism isn’t about reality,
it’s about how it makes the individual liberal feel about himself.
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posted on
03/11/2013 7:15:29 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Above My Pay Grade
Well, if its a nuke, then it really IS green energy!
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posted on
03/11/2013 7:16:27 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(Waiting for the return of the Gods of the Copybook Headings.)
To: MrB
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posted on
03/11/2013 7:22:53 AM PDT
by
aMorePerfectUnion
(Gone rogue, gone Galt, gone international, gone independent. Gone.)
To: Little Ray
To: COBOL2Java
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posted on
03/11/2013 7:24:29 AM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: Above My Pay Grade
Hybrids run on gasoline. Good, thought-provoking question about electrics though.
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posted on
03/11/2013 7:27:12 AM PDT
by
Betis70
("Leading from Behind" gets your Ambassador killed)
To: COBOL2Java
Did the promoter call it “Break” Light on the second illustration?
Freud lives.
If you are thinking electric car, think Golf Cart. Works great in Florida (warm and flat), locally.
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posted on
03/11/2013 7:27:35 AM PDT
by
cicero2k
To: SeekAndFind
The greatest success of the AlGoreian global warming idiots is the successful re-definition of carbon dioxide (a gas essential to life on Earth) as a “pollutant.”
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posted on
03/11/2013 7:30:08 AM PDT
by
Cincinatus
(Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
To: SeekAndFind
It was a “secret” only to those with liberal arts degrees.
For those of us who are engineers, it was apparent from the first doodle on a napkin.
Duh.
Life is a never-ending tragedy for those who refuse to use mathematics to evaluate choices in life.
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posted on
03/11/2013 7:30:39 AM PDT
by
NVDave
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