ghostrider421 wrote:
carl2591 wrote:
this is going to help push elec more into the mainstream. When diesel goes up gas goes up as well.
I remember when gas got to $4 a gallon I saw a lot of big surburans, ford trucks etc parked and the people had bought a 10 plus your old honda, toyota or hyundai that got 30 MPG vs 12 MPG to cope with the cost.
( i had a g-20 van with 302 v-8 10-12 MPG and when gas got to 1.86 gallon I parked it and went back to '94 toyota king cab pickup truck that with ladders on it got 20 plus MPG so the $4 gas was not a big deal to me or the business)
Now with the tesla 35K elec car coming on line and no need for "gas" they will sell the hell out of them and the big SUV's will sit till vacation time.
This may finally push more and more OTR class 8 tractors to move to LNG systems adn finally companies like Clean Energy will benifit. (CLEN)
To produce electricity - a power plant is necessary - it burns some form of fossil fuel. Solar energy is fading b/c of lack of sun spots. Wind energy kills more birds and are out of service more than half the time. Neither of which are good options.
CNG in commercial OTRs is a solution - UPS has several in their fleets and Westport does the conversions for Cummins. LNG and Methanol are the other two choices - for our commercial tug fleets these work out.
Nope
You might want to do a little fact checking. Less than half of 1 percent of bird kills is by wind turbine. The vast amount (greater than 90 percent) of bird kills is by cats and a lesser amount to vehicles and buildings.
Solar and wind continue to grow.
Many countries produce very little of their power from fossil fuels and renewables continue to increase market share on a world wide basis.
So yah, no.
