<p>Electric cars are very promising and will be great for the environment - once we clean up the way the electricity is generated. Remember, electricity isn’t a source of energy, it’s just a carrier medium, so if someone is driving an electrical car around in an area where energy is produced by coal plants, it’s not exactly an environmental triumph.</p>
<p>It absolutely is. I’d make book on it. They hate cars, roads, people who like the privacy/independence of cars, and want everyone on a bus or train or riding a bike as they do in their imaginary European city.</p>
<p>barrons- LOL! Can you imagine the impact to the economy if the interstate highway system just disappeared? No more mom and pop hotels/franchises, Cracker Barrels, fireworks stores, convenience markets. What would happen to South of the Border?
Or just think- how universal citywide public transit would affect all the ladies like me who call up H at 5 PM…“Hey honey, can you stop at Publix and pick up a can of chicken broth???”</p>
<p>Oh pooh, that’s a pretty baseless claim if I ever heard one. I love cars and driving, and I’ve been an environmentalist since at least 1970. I’ve been driving hybrids for almost 8 years, and am really excited to get a look at a Tesla in a few weeks! Driving is a great way to get around, we just need to make it less of a burden on the planet.</p>
<p>I wish US had been a World Leader in this issue but good science simply doesn’t have a chance in the Bush/Cheney driven world! Therefore, countries one would have least expected to be leaders are forging this new path. Check this out.</p>
<p>Obviously you have not read some of the books and articles about how highways are responsible for all bad things in the US and the creation of the Interstate system was the worst environmental disaster for the US. I don’t think they were kidding.</p>
<p>“If they invented cars that ran on ambient air and produced zero emissions enviros would still oppose them.”</p>
<p>Barrons, if every inch of I-5 from Everett to Seattle is still covered with cars, even your ambient air models will be met with opposition, and not only from “enviros” ;)</p>
<p>Us, “what’s wrong with it”
Us: He enjoys his lifestyle too much. Only 36 days before he comes home and finishes (hopefully) his academic career, and I die from CC. He’s off to India in January, on a 3-6 month internship, courtesy of U of Toronto and MSFT ( he’s also not enthused with programming)</p>