(you forgot hydro)
I would like to see a really detailed comparison of the electric vehicle vs.
the gasoline vehicle. We all know what a gallon of gasoline costs, and that
cost includes profit that goes to a lot of different people plus taxes to
various people. I've seen the commercials that say how much electricity the
little car takes per day compared to the cost in gasoline, and thinking that
some of that electricity is generated from coal or oil, you might start to
think that there is a big difference in efficience somewhere in one process vs.
the other process. I would like to see a good analysis that would show how
this really works.
What I see is that someone digs a well, pumps the crude out of the ground,
sells it, ships it to somewhere else, it gets refined into various different
components, it gets shipped a few more times, and you buy it at a pump and put
it in the automobile.
What I'm also guessing is that someone digs a mine, takes coal out, sells it,
ships it to somewhere else, it gets burned to generate electricity, someone
builds a bunch of wires, the electricity gets transmitted along the wires to
the automobile.
Now why or how is one of these processes way more efficient than the other?
That is what I would like to know. And I want someone to do an impartial study
and get into the actual numbers in order to really show what goes where.
> Looks like fun, but these guys aren't honest about being environmentally
> clean. All they have done is to front load the pollution from the car to
> the
> power plant that generates the electricity to charge it. Only wind, solar
> and nuclear change one form of energy into another without pollution and
> we know the problems with nuclear. I'll be a lot more impressed when I see
> a wind or solar power car setting world records at the drags.
>
> There's no such thing as a free lunch.
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