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Urea, ugh. Wouldn't have one with that requirement, if possible to avoid it.

No emissions? So all your juice comes from solar/wind?

Seriously, I have no beef with electric cars except where the subsidy is so large, or, as the VoIP guy says, Enormous, Huge bill for the TXPers. To paraphrase the man, "You didn't buy that. Somebody else made that payment."

They could make sense as commuters, if you live close in. I used to commute 18 miles to D.C. and 30 to Baltimore, not unusual, yet out of Volt range.

So, Dude, what's the point? None I can see, other than the car is a novelty. That's cool. I bought a Betamax, myself.

All in fun. :D

cekkk wrote:
Southern Colorado has seen diesel rise from 3.50s to 4 - 4.25 this month.

You electric putt-putt owners must be gleeful today, as an appeals court said EPA had overstepped its bounds with coal regs! :B

Yeah but I has zero emissions from my putt putt and in 2 years hope to have one with a 200 mile battery.

Now if I could figure out when the diesel trucks were going for new ideas I'd be happy although I don't even know much about the urea stuff yet,LOL

Southern Colorado has seen diesel rise from 3.50s to 4 - 4.25 this month.

You electric putt-putt owners must be gleeful today, as an appeals court said EPA had overstepped its bounds with coal regs! :B

$4.09 in Harvey, ND. $4.20 down the road a few miles in Drake, ND both for diesel.

LindsayRichards wrote:
the huge green energy lobby.

haha, that's a good one!

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The subsidies for alternatives average about 70 times per megawatt produced more than for fossil fuels which are only in terms of tax deductions enjoyed by most other companies. Notions to the contrary are completely incorrect and are fostered by the huge green energy lobby. We have recently given away 36 $BILLION to solar energy and electric vehicle companies which have already failed or are in process of failing. Propping up these not ready for prime time just hampers them in the long run.

Interesting article on the downfall of the wind industry in America. This is from their industry journal.

http://www.awea.org/newsroom/pressreleases/layoffs_mounting.cfm

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/08/17/chinese-asbestos-in-australia-blame-quality-fade/

Info about asbestos in Chinese cars. I actually had an MG which had an asbestos gasket joining two parts of the tailpipe.

Getting the last bit of horsepower out of an engine devolves down to the weight to power ratio. But maybe we thought about the problem backwards. I had the opportunity to work on a Mercedes touring sedan, built in the late '50's. I was told it was the first commercially available engine with fuel injection. The big inline six pulled a chassis weight in excess of 6,000 lbs. The owner commuted in this car a distance of 30 mi, one way, with three passengers. He swore that the vehicle got 30 mi./gal..