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To: TexasGator

And now you are veering off into rainbow and unicorn fart fantasy land. Where do you think the electricity to replace 140 Billion gallons of gasoline per year will come from?

Generating electricity from anything other than fossil fuels or nuclear power is expensive, unreliable and far worse for the environment over the long run. Come up with a low cost, clean and inexhaustible alternative power source first then we can consider replacing millions of gasoline powered vehicles with electric.


108 posted on 10/06/2020 8:15:06 PM PDT by kennedy (No relation to those other Kennedys.)
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To: kennedy
"And now you are veering off into rainbow and unicorn fart fantasy land. Where do you think the electricity to replace 140 Billion gallons of gasoline per year will come from?"

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History loves smooth transitions, such as horses to cars. “There’s an assumption that you have this clean break between eras,” says urban historian Martin Melosi. “In the real world, that doesn’t happen.” The idea of a neat transition from horses to the automobile age is a history-as-approved-by-victors myth that elides several decades when horse travel declined but automobiles were uncommon, used primarily to haul freight. The automobile as we now conceive it, a personal transport machine, wouldn’t come along for nearly half a century."

http://nautil.us/issue/7/waste/did-cars-save-our-cities-from-horses

112 posted on 10/06/2020 8:26:42 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: kennedy

“inexhaustible alternative power source first then we can consider replacing millions of gasoline powered vehicles with electric.”

Ten million almost replaced.


114 posted on 10/06/2020 8:31:55 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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