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I love the California oil dependency argument. Where do you think most electric power comes from? Oil, natural gas, coal I am pretty sure. Of course Cali government refuses to let those plants be built there and then squeals when interstate electric companies gouge them for their electric needs.
I am all for using less natural resources, but has anyone actually calculated the true carbon footprint of an eleactric car considering the fuel needed to produce the electricity, transmission, conversion and efficiency losses? I have to believe the Tesla is worse than the Elise.
And don'ttell me you are buying only "green" electricity to charrge your Tesla. Nice idea, but unless everyone can do it for their electric needs, you are only shifting to others the carbon-fired electricity usage.
Electric vehicles make all kinds of sense if there is a non-carbon infrastructure to charge them, and that to me seems at least equally if not more important than building an electric sports car. I do not feel sorry at all for those willing to fork over $100K for the promise of a car in the future. That may have been forward thinking, but it was incredibly risky and should have been undertaken only by those willing and able to risk the whoe thing.
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