Hi Dawie, I agree with you 100% that people should walk more, how ever, there are times when people have to drive long distances on their job, etc., or they have to deliver goods for a long distance. Because we need to diversify on types of energies for transportation we need many different sources of energy in order to slow down Global Warming. If every one chose bio-diesel we could run out of land some day especially if we also chose large vehicles. If we choose cars about the size of a Smart Car for most people and some of them are electric and some of them are Bio-diesel and some of them are Hydrogen, etc. we have a better chance of changing the world by not creating other problems down the road.
Terry Dyck >From: Dawie Coetzee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org >To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org >Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Mass-Produced Electric Cars >Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 05:53:56 +0000 (GMT) > >The problem with today's cars is exactly that they are mass-produced. >Mass-producing electric cars isn't going to solve that. > >The problem with most electrics is that the job they do best of all is the >job we should be doing with our feet. > >The entire debate around the ecology of transport is that the matter of >scale is always left out. Arguments rage about so many of molecule x versus >so many of molecule y, without ever considering that patterns of use will >radically influence the overall volume of molecules we're talking about. >The first issue should be to address vehicle use patterns. This requires a >holistic approach, and a sound appreciation of the purposes of most vehicle >trips, and how that relates to the structure of cities. > >The bulk of one's effort should be oriented to developing a living >environment in which driving is unnecessary, and walking supported by >public transport is the obvious way to get from A to B. Given that, the >entirely subsidiary project of designing cars and fuels concerns not so >much cleaner cars and cleaner fuels, but types of vehicle and fuel best >suited to manufacture for a very-low-demand scenario. > >The beauty of ethanol and biodiesel is predominantly that it is perfectly >suited to such a scenario. If motor vehicles are rare, we aren't going to >run them on a fuel that requires drilling very expensive holes in another >country. We would need a fuel that can be made in small quantities as an >agricultural by-product. > >The same applies to manufacture of vehicles. In the light of the above, the >Toyota Prius is an ecological disaster compared with Keith's Landies, or >other classics, or something Lotus-7-ish, or a traditional hot rod, or a >proper motorbike made out of bent tubing. Note how typical current >legislation militates against this approach. > >-Dawie > > > >___________________________________________________________ >The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from >your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 >messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > _________________________________________________________________ Your Space. Your Friends. Your Stories. Share your world with Windows Live Spaces. http://discoverspaces.live.com/?loc=en-CA _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
