Your forgetting, California hardly makes it's own power anymore.
They're pushing their problem on somebody else, and that's good enough
for them.
On Feb 27, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Rick Lindsay wrote:
> I get a kick out of all the emphasis, praise and glory that electric
> vehicles get. Just yesterday there was a glowing piece on NPR about
> new electric trucks introduced at LA and Longbeach ports. Everyone
> was just drooling over how GREEN everything was. Lots of folks
> there patting themselves on the back. Perhaps they didn't read the
> bit about the electricity that they use being generated by coal-
> fired power plants. Electric vehicles just transfer the source of
> the pollution away from the wealthy, artsy neighborhoods to the blue
> collar neighborhoods where the power plants were built! That's
> right. There's no free lunch.
>
> rick
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