Posted on 03/04/2003 12:15:19 PM PST by CounterCounterCulture
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:30:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The rotary dial telephone. The black-and-white TV. The eight-track tape player.
California is on the verge of adding a new item to the list of yesterday's technologies: the electric car.
In a historic shift, state officials spent Monday putting the finishing touches on a new plan to end a longstanding requirement that forces automobile companies to build and sell specific numbers of electric cars in California.
(Excerpt) Read more at bayarea.com ...
Actually they have been unable to repeal physics. Little things like gravity and friction have conspired to derail their little wagon.
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The newest move from Sacramento joins a growing list of challenges to White House environmental policies, including its positions on offshore oil drilling, electric cars, logging in the Sierra and dead salmon on the Klamath River.
(SNIP) Lock(step)yer may have to sue CARB next...hee-hee...
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Prerecorded message: "Welcome to the electric car of the future. Sponsered by the gasoline producers of America."
Car (in ultra-whiney voice): "Hello...I'm an electric carrrrr...I can't go very faaaaast...or very farrrrr...and if you drive me, people will think you're gayyyyy..."
Gays: "One of us! One of us!"
Utopian legislation. It's like the legislation they passed last year requiring that 20% of California's power come from renewables. They might as well have made it 100%.
The biggest issue with true electric cars is the fact you're only limited to 60-80 mile range on a single charge. Not very useful for almost every California driver. The successful development of gasoline-electric hybrids from Toyota and Honda has shown you can get a very fuel-efficient car that is very low-polluting indeed--and the Prius has the range to (in theory) drive from San Francisco to San Diego on a single 11.9 US gallon fillup!
Don't you just love how market forces, economics, and physics prevail over "do-good" Politicians!
Speaking of which, in Rough and Tumble, there are two interesting articles (too busy to post) one in the Sac Bee that says Davis now blames the Cal Power crisis caused by evil power companies as the source of all his and the state's problems and how he is going to get those evil folks. The other is that FERC (in a Wall Street Journla article) has said that it is going to make public the "evidence that California has submitted." That should allow the accused the opportunity to respond and pretty well discredit the California arguments.
This is going to get fun to watch. Also the hydro situation up in the PNW is not getting any better, nor is the Cal ISO doing a better job of managing the power systems. Therefore, I suspect that things could get dicey this summer for California both in terms of price and blackouts.
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