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Electric Shmectric: bah humbug.

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Submitted by Ing (United States), Feb 2, 2011 at 15:26

Yuval said:

Renault-Nissan will roll out 115 000 new electric cars which feed off the grid, making oil-based fuel un-necessary.

This is a typical media myth: that a shift to electric cars, with their plastic parts and new expensive materials and assembly line toolings, will magically make petroleum demand disappear. In fact, Rand concluded long ago that shifting to hydrogen cars, for example, would severely burden the grid and require the addition of something like 4 extra power plants to replace the output of every plant utilized to generate hydrogen.

As about half the country's electricity comes from coal, these electric car cheerleaders are robbing Peter to pay Paul. So much for saving the earth!

Not clear on how providing more revenue to Iran and Saudi Arabia will weaken them, but certainly a permanent denuking of Pakistan should have been priority one from day one. (I would make priority two leveling Pakistan into dust and glass, but I'll settle for number one.)

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Title Commenter Date Thread
Turkey is Islam -2.0 [79 words]PeterFeb 16, 2011 08:29182739
they are all the same [5 words]jon purizhanskyFeb 5, 2011 14:16182328
Whoops! [24 words]Jacob AGFeb 4, 2011 05:42182258
Loss of power [140 words]yuval Brandstetter MDJan 16, 2011 01:20181830
Electric Shmectric: bah humbug. [162 words]IngFeb 2, 2011 15:26181830
Bah Humbug? [99 words]y Brandstetter MDFeb 5, 2011 08:52181830
14Pakistan is an islamic disaster [146 words]dhimmi no moreJan 6, 2011 16:59181614
How did the US allow such a country (as Pakistan) to become a nuclear power? [54 words]AmazonasJan 20, 2011 22:12181614
1Pakistan is our enemy [146 words]dhimmi no moreJan 24, 2011 08:23181614
2I agree with this assessment...but... [330 words]Jeremy BrownJan 2, 2011 04:05181449
5It is just one nation [199 words]TedJan 3, 2011 00:23181449
2Indonesia [14 words]LorenzoJan 1, 2011 22:41181445
I agree with Lorenzo [23 words]SidFeb 3, 2011 11:29181445

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