On December 14, 2016 at 10:38, tomciara said...
So I suppose if anyone wants to be sane about this discussion, they might be willing to admit that both sides have merit. 100% electric vehicles on the road, including vans, trucks pulling trailers and so forth is not practical in the least. Some electric cars can certainly work out, as the Prius has and others will.
Both sides don't have merit. The only reason we still need gasoline engine trucks today is that we didn't start investing in green technology earlier. Had we spent half the money we spent fiddling with the middle east.over the last 50 years...on solar research...we would have the solar panels and batteries we need to haul cargo with electric trucks today.
Solar panels and electric cars require a considerable amount of oil to produce their materials, so the electric contingency shouldn't get all excited about never needing oil again. For Mac to say we don't need to use oil is not just a little bit funny.
Its only funny if you think i said that. I said we don't need to burn things for fuel. Not needing to burn things for fuel is not the same as not needing oil to produce materials that are used in cars.
And FYI...for those confused by this seemingly common sense issue...Just because we need some oil to do some things doesn't mean we have to just give up and keep using oil for everything. We don't need to burn things anymore...so we shouldn't.
But for dinosaur lovers and fossil fuel lovers, to dismiss electrics is probably equally funny. Seems to me that both have their place. Can't we just get along?
We can get along about as well as the horse breeders and the inventor of the motor car.
