In a message dated 3/9/2004 6:40:38 PM Central Standard Time >If Battery EVs continue to be conspicuously and unfairly excluded from >consideration, based on disingenuous and partly-false claims about >lack of demand and lack of performance of advanced batteries and >what-not, ....
OK, suppose we mandated 1 Million EVs to be built next year. They would probably have to use lead-acid batteries, as they are the only off-the-shelf technology available. They are already expensive, but what will happen to the price of lead when GM tries to buy another million tons? How will they get the permission to open new lead mines? The environmental impact statements would take years to get thrrough the courts. And the lead smelters? Worse. Battery recycling? We already ship automobile batteries offshore for recycling, because of EPA and OSHA. What will we do with an extra half million tons a year? How much space will they evacuate when a train hits an EV, spilling toxic materials over a quarter mile or so of track? Or the hydrogen explosion, after a traffic accident? Then there's the infrastructure, more than a million charging stations. They'll be tearing up half the streets in LA, and the folks in Utah and Nevada will protest the building of new coal-burning (or nuclear) electric generating plants there to charge the million cars. Who will pay for the huge cost? The poor folks in West Virginia won't like being taxed to pay for toys for Green geeks on the west coast. Suppose you are running for congress in West VA. How are you going to sell your "energy plan"? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
