On Aug 17, 2015, at 1:20 PM, Robert Bruninga via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
> But for 83% of us, it has dropped to Zero NOW. We aren't waiting. In addition to this very important point, there's another equally-important point to be made. Coal is nasty, yes. But so is petroleum. And even those EVs that are powered primarily by utility-scale coal-fired generators are to be preferred over those powered by gasoline. The greater thermodynamic and mechanical efficiencies work out on a per-mile basis in favor of EVs, for one...but even if they didn't...well, we've got lots more coal than we do petroleum, and we need the petroleum for plastics and fertilizer and lubricants and all sorts of other things that civilization would collapse without. Just shifting the personal transportation fleet from petroleum to coal would be more than reason enough to endorse EVs. That we're shifting from petroleum not to coal but to solar is very good! But shifting away from petroleum to anything else is as important in the short term as shifting from anything else to solar is in the long term. b& _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
