Posted on 07/12/2013 6:23:08 PM PDT by VitacoreVision
Former Electric-car Engineer: Electric Cars Pollute More Than Gas
The New American
12 July 2013
Is the only "green" aspect of electric cars the money some companies make off them? If former plug-in advocate and General Motors engineer Ozzie Zehner (shown) is correct, this is exactly the case.
Author of the book Green Illusions, Zehner once built his own hybrid car that could run on electricity or natural gas. And, he writes in a recent article entitled "Unclean at Any Speed," he was convinced cars such as his "would help reduce both pollution and fossil-fuel dependence."
But he now says, "I was wrong."
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Full Story:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/15971-former-electric-car-engineer-electric-cars-pollute-more-than-gas
Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism
Ozzie Zehner, 2012
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
Maybe in Quebec.
No Shiite!
Ben, thanks for your "clarification." But the push is still on for electric cars no matter what. In the popular mind the story has not faded.
Obama told us electricity prices would "necessarily" have to rise in his Brave New World. He's gone to war with coal-produced electricity. He's done everything possible to make energy more expensive. Yet his Liberal Lunatic followers demand electric cars no matter how impractical, useless and silly they are.
Anyone who ever thought electric cars were a solution to our energy problem needs a few years in psychiatric rehabilitation.
Yep. I have a BIL who is convinced you can run a whole house off of solar panels year round 24/7 because he visited a house that claimed such.
He said they had no electric service other than a few solar panels on the roof. He claimed it ran an entire house (approximately 3200 sq feet) including the all electric HVAC system, the hot tub, normal house lights and yard lights, all the appliances, a heated pool AND a heated driveway.
He proudly showed me a picture of the place that had no more the 40 square feet of solar panels. When I pointed out the electric lines running to the house he said the owners had never got around to disconnecting from the electric company...
> “ The ICE has evolved all it is going to.” <<
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That is an incredibly idiotic statement.
The ICE has barely scratched the surface of its future. Horsepower to displacement ratios hav more than tripled in the last decade, and fuel economy is rising rapidly, and would rise even more rapidly if the feckless environmental ‘fixes’ were sent to the hole they belong in.
A plug-in electric car is a death trap waiting to be triggered in the next emergency.
Electric cars would have zero future without destructive government subsidies.
What the F___ are you doing on FR?
Your BIL is a liar and a fool!
It’s the physics stupid. If you had a solid grasp of physics you would know that nothing is free or green in this universe.
Is that why you purchased it?
LOL!!
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