Folks,
FWIW, this article is gobbdegook. It oversimplifies and trivializes limited
aspects of a complex problem. We should all understand that plug in vehicles
are not simply a solution to global arming or inner city traffic congestion.
The gizmo that makes a diesel or gasoline car more efficient or that city
legislation that taxes this or that only pick at a single facet of a many
faceted problem, or perhaps network of problems.
The plug-In vehicle combined with electricity from a modernized grid delivering
power from renewable sources and locally produced renewable electricity are the
only comprehensive solution to every facet of this complex set of problems.
The problems are:
1. Economy
Rising fuel and food prices. These are the essentials of life in our
Oil based economy. The price of all products are rising under the pressure of
rising fuel prices. But, if you can't afford to drive to work or eat you have
a fundamental problem.
We have a balance of payments problem due to our reliance on foreign oil.
The value of the dollar diminishes with the purchase of each barrel of foreign
oil.
We are fighting a war to insure stability in a part of the world the
produces the oil we rely on. Whether or not we are achieving stability, that
was the objective. The cost of the war is an economic drain on our economy.
We are financing this effort with long term debt to China.
We subsidize the oil industry at a trillion dollars a year. Yet we say we
can't afford the cost of solving our reliance of oil. The fact is we can't
afford our reliance on oil. The fact is, that if we applied a tiny fraction of
the money squandered on oil and / or the war we could give away Plug-In
vehicles and stimulate the economy and create new industries and jobs in the
process.
2.National Security.
A portion of your foreign oil dollar (borrowed) goes to terrorism. The
resources spent in the Iraq war weaken our National security and leave us
vulnerable to attack on other fronts. We have people in service doing multiple
successive tours of duty because of limited number of forces. Who would
imagine the success of such a small number of poorly organized enemy forces
could so effectively weaken the national security of this great Nation.
3. Foreign Oil Reliance
In addition to the Economic and National Security aspects of the Foreign
Oil dependency, pollution and shipping problems are related here. The biggest
fleets and ships in the world are not aircraft carriers but oil tankers. The
delivery of this fuel involves the consumption of enormous amounts of
petroleum, pollution and the occasional spill. The solution offered to this
dependency is, offshore drilling bringing with it, it's own set of
environmental and economic problems.
4. Pollution
This a problem that is well understood and our reason for initially started
down this road. In terms of urgency it now needs to compete with the price of
food on the table and transportation to work. Plug-In vehicles in the short
term, when using electricity from fossil plants and only partially renewable
sources, significantly reduce pollution and remove the point of pollution from
the point of use. Plug-In cars driven in cities leave the city air clean
regardless of the origin or the energy used to charge them.
5. Global warming.
Only yesterday we hear the news that the White House was forced to release
the report produced as a result of a mandate from congress and completed in
2004. This administration has dismantled incentives necessary to solve this
problem and hidden the evidence of the urgency of the need to address the issue
for four years. Global Warming is real, and we are already suffering from its
adverse effects.
Plug-In technology is viable, tested and proven in the Panasonic EV-95 NiMH
powered Toyota RAV4-EV. This is a car, that on May 25, 2008 sold for $89,200,
almost three times its initial cost after incentives. Any resources spent on
solving one or another aspect of this complex problem, is wasted resource and
contributes to the delay in arriving at the comprehensive solution.
What is the solution?
We are about to enter a new administration, be it Democrat or Republican. This
administration needs to hit the ground running with an effective and
comprehensive energy policy that gets to the heart of the matter. There is not
a lot of time left for dancing around the issues. I am not talking about
global warming, however important that is, I am talking about economic hardship
that is the consequence of continued delay. A strategically positioned Gulf
shore hurricane or terrorist attack could break this economy in its current
weakened state. We need an informed Administration in the White House and an
informed Congress to act decisively. We need to shift incentives away from
oil and to Plug-In vehicles. I offer this for your consideration:
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Petition to Congress
We ask you to consider with openness, the current energy crisis. Rising fuel
costs are the concern of an increasing number of Citizens. Because 25% of the
products in our supermarkets are made from corn; and because the production of
corn is a fuel intensive process; and because corn is being diverted to make
ethanol, food prices are rising rapidly, also.
We ask you to consider initiatives, taxes and incentives to move this Country
in a positive direction. Government owned Hybrid vehicles can be converted to
Plug-in Hybrid vehicles at a cost of $10,000 per vehicle. Charging stations
for these vehicles can be provided at Federal buildings and facilities.
Charging stations can be powered form the grid or local solar panels. Plug-In
Hybrid vehicles can run for thirty miles on pure electric, increasing vehicle
efficiency to 100 miles per gallon or more.
These improvements could be paid for with an environmental impact fee on new
car sales of $100 per vehicle for gas burning automobiles. Hybrid vehicles
(using an electric motor for propulsion in addition to the conventional
Internal Combustion Engine) capable of conversion to plug-In would be exempt
from the impact fee. An incentive of $5,000 could be paid to any resident
converting a Hybrid to a Plug-In, or purchasing a Plug-In Hybrid, or purchasing
pure battery electric vehicle.
As the number of conversions increases the environmental impact fee on gasoline
cars could be increased to cover the cost of the conversion / purchase
incentive, further incetivizing conversions. As the number of Plug-In Hybrids
further increases, the incentive can be reduced to keep pace with reduced
revenue from the environmental impact fees.
In addition, a guaranteed minimum price of four dollars per gallon could be
promised to car owners and drivers by imposing a Federal gas tax differential
whenever the price of a gallon of gas drops below four dollars a gallon. This
would further incentivize replacing gasoline automobiles with Hybrids, Plug-In
Hybrids or pure battery electric cars.
Chevron/Cobasys holds the patents for NiMH batteries. This technology has been
licensed to dozens of companies currently making NiMH batteries in formats no
larger than 10ah. Panasonic manufactured the EV-95 NiMH battery in a 95ah
format used in the Toyota RAV4-EV. Toyota manufactured 1500 of these vehicles.
Many of these vehicles have over 100,000 miles and are still running today,
ten years after their introduction in 1998. The last time a Toyota RAV4-EV was
sold on E-Bay (May25,2008), it sold for 89,200. This is almost three times its
original cost after incentives.
Congress must take steps in the interest of National security, to see to it
that companies like Panasonic are licensed to make the larger format NiMH
batteries under agreements that are fair to Chevron/Cobasys and licensees like
Panasonic. This technology is essential to the Plug-In vehicles we need in the
interest of National Security and other oil related problems listed below.
We the signatories of this petition mandate Congress to take these steps toward
solving our reliance on foreign oil, national security, rising food and fuel
prices, pollution and global warming.
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I started this post because of yet another frivolous item in the media. The
media is supposed to ask the hard questions and inform us. I am disappointed.
It seems to me that the burden falls on us to ask the hard questions and inform
the public. I ask those of you who believe that the Plug-In Vehicle is the
keystone in the solution to this complex array of problems to join me. Think
about how I can change my approach and how you can help so that together we can
show America the way to freedom from our current crippling reliance on foreign
oil.
Cheers,
Al Lococo
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www.evprogress.org
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