Add a Comment
Email This
Statistics
RE: Making the Aztecs Proud
a really good, affordable, powerful electric car
Hey, they already make several motocycle/scooters (Enertia, Electric Motorsport, Vectrix just to name a few) so why can't they make a car?
BUT..my pastor says if there's no vibration or the throaty exhaust like his Harley, he won't buy one. Maybe those companies need to add that to boost sales.. ;)
Of course, down in SC, it's perfectly legal to drive a golf cart on side streets within 2 miles of your home. I'm already picking mine out for when I move down there in about 5-6 years (hopefully!!). You can get them enclosed even!
I also agree with you about Nuclear Power--but the diligence *has* to be there to keep it safe..and there's always that nagging question of what to do with the waste. I toyed with the idea of a 'rocket to the sun' approach in my mind, but I'm sure that's wayyyyyy expensive. Now..if we could ever harness fusion power....
RE: Making the Aztecs Proud
OH..and for anglers like me, a good electric boat motor with descent power and life. Something that will take my boat 60 miles offshore @45mph, let me spend the day out there chasing marlin or tuna, and take me home again.
Until then, it's internal combustion. Although--there are good electric motors for putting around on a small-medium sized lake or river. A lot of lakes have outright bans on petro-chemical motors and only allow electric, so if you have an electric motor, you can put your pontoon boat in and have an enjoyable day.
RSS
Making the Aztecs Proud
Here's the thing that bothers me about the man-made global warming hysteria (aside from the fact that for every person who says the science is settled another says "nuh-uh")-- we wouldn't be the first civilization to spend all our efforts trying to appease the angry gods for our transgressions when the environment starts getting uppity instead of trying to figure out how to survive what may be coming. Already there are lawsuits against those who have "caused" global warming. The UN, EU, and politicians like Gore are rubbing their hands together at the thought of imposing "carbon" taxes and greater governmental intrusion in all our lives. Mouth breathing celebrities preach to us common folk to repent of our energy sins whilst hopping into their SUVs to take them and their entourage to their private jets, or while having a hot tub helicoptered in. The Live Earth concert produced as much carbon in one day as Afghanistan did all last year. Much touted "green" fuel such as ethanol are ultimately worthless, as there isn't enough farmland to grow enough corn to make it worthwhile, plus it pollutes worse than gasoline. Don't get me started on the costs of bio-diesel.
Aside from the fact that probably the simplest and cheapest way of reducing pollutants is increased nuclear power (even the co-founder of Greenpeace says their no-nukes absolutism in the 70's was wrong-headed and environmentally destructive) and a really good, affordable, powerful electric car, I have not heard one idea being proposed about what we should do if Global Warming is inevitable. Not one. No ideas on how to adapt, on how to make Global Warming work for us. Just hysteria and polishing up the stone slabs in anticipation of making human (or orangutan) sacrifices to appease the angry weather gods.
View Full Discussion