Cars, Coffee and Conversation Tonight at Tinto

Currently the most efficient (read for society as it is) way to generate electricity is to burn fossil fuels. While I agree it would be great to have less smoggy vehicles, it is still not going to help our over-use of energy as a whole. Doesn't anyone remember the blackout in 2003? It wasn't a freak occurrence, we are consuming more juice than we can (or maybe should) produce. Perhaps we should concentrate on fixing urban sprawl and public transportation before we allow the currently unsustainable suburbia to continue without a re-design. While the technology may be great for all sorts of other concerns, replacing SUVs with electric compacts may not cut into the core of our urban/suburban problem.

"Currently the most efficient (read for society as it is) way to generate electricity is to burn fossil fuels"
For the life of me, I just refuse to believe that in 2007, we, they, whoever, someone, ANYONE, cannot come up with a cleaner more efficient form of energy. Imagine someone being cryogenically frozen 100 years ago and waking up today and marvelling at all of the amazing new technology...he (or she) then asks, "say, it's kind of cold out, how do you heat your homes?" Really? That's how we did it 100 years ago. But what about these new fancy cars you drive, what magic, futuristic elixir do they run on? Gas and oil? Hmmm. Same...we....used. So, I guess you really aren't so advanced afterall...and who is this Imus guy?

The EV is so efficient, even a modest solar rooftop electric PV system makes more energy than we use. The Toyota RAV4-EV was sold (last in Nov. 2002) so it can't be taken back and crushed, and it allows us to prove that the EV using PV has NO "wells", there is no need for oil except for making the EV in the first place.

So those who claim that electric is "dirty" when used to power EVs, are wrong; you can run two EVs 30,000 miles per year without buying any gas, and with donating excess electric to the grid during peak daytime usage periods.

The EV is so efficient, even a modest solar rooftop electric PV system makes more energy than we use. The Toyota RAV4-EV was sold (last in Nov. 2002) so it can't be taken back and crushed, and it allows us to prove that the EV using PV has NO "wells", there is no need for oil except for making the EV in the first place.

So those who claim that electric is "dirty" when used to power EVs, are wrong; you can run two EVs 30,000 miles per year without buying any gas, and with donating excess electric to the grid during peak daytime usage periods.