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Posted on 08/14/2009 6:55:25 PM PDT by Kaslin
Conservation: The Chevy Volt is said to be able to get 230 miles per gallon. That's if it's continually plugged into a fragile and overburdened power grid. Where will you be when the lights go out?
That depends on where you live, according to Adam Victor, president of TransGas Energy, who has been fighting with the city of New York and its resident Nimbys to build an environmentally friendly natural gas cogeneration facility in Brooklyn to generate electricity these cars might plug into.
Writing in the New York Post, he notes that in much of the nation, particularly in flyover country, many utilities use heavy fuel oil to generate that electricity. So the more electric cars you plug into the grid, we may actually be increasing pollution and carbon emissions by using oil that's not included in miles-per-gallon computations.
As Victor puts it, "If a few thousand well-meaning dupes plug a few thousand new Chevy Volts into electrical outlets (especially in urban centers), you could actually add millions of pounds of dangerous, dirty unregulated pollution and carbon into the air we breathe — possibly more pollution than would be offset by putting the Volts on the road."
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No. Libs can not afford them and no Conservative in his right mind would buy one.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316403/posts
You got that right
Yes, electric cars will crash the grid. Liberal ideas always are based on feelings, not logic.
A lot of libs are extremely wealthy, and this guilt for having wealth (which often is inherited and not earned) is what drives them towards liberalism.
And this brand of liberalism also keeps others from earning wealth to join their ranks and keeps their ranks more rarefied.
Haven’t a couple of these cars already caught fire and burned some peoples houses down?
You’ll get 230 mpg if you are going downhill with a strong tailwind...
It will probably be the same size as the Smart Car. Here’s what a Smart Car does in a test crash with a Mercedes at 40 MPH.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8F0PFi24VI
Ask yourself “where do the legs go?”
So when my deadbeat loser neighbor’s hoodlum son decides to have a little fun and unplugs my car in the middle of the night, will my boss understand why I’ll be late for work?
The envirowhackos think it's better to drive a hybrid or electric car to save the planet and reduce greenhouse gases...Yet, I need to plug my car into my electric socket at home???
Since most electricity is produced by nuclear or coal - how is that saving the planet???
These people are so stupid.
Stupid ... everyone knows that we get electricity from the wall.
Never forget. Liberalism is a mental disorder. Hey if they work.Cool. I want one I can put racks on and save cart fees.
Awww, you beat me to it.
I’m sure they have a cunning plan...
It has always amazed me that the political geniuses we have in Washington can never complete a thought process...I mean they have all these brilliant ideas, but no plan to implement them and/or the foresight to see what is going to happen when their plan takes effect. Have they never heard of “Cause and Effect”??? It makes me crazy.
COMMON SENSE PEOPLE!!
Since the cars will be charged at night the grid will be just fine. As for the pollution, power stations are considerably more efficient than cars.
40 mile range. What will these drivers and their families do if a Katrina like hurricane hit their city and they must spend 12 hours in a traffic jam trying to get out. A gasoline car can get refueled in five minutes or less, an electric car needs 10 plus hours to recharge. EV driver and family, when you are out of juice, you become the infantry and learn to hump it to safety.
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