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Old 06-25-2009, 09:07 AM   #59 (permalink)
Cardinal
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Originally Posted by TimMullen View Post
I'm not an enviro nut either, but one thing that the rush to electric cars isn't looking at it is the resources required to mass produce electric cars and batteries. Most of the natural resources required to make things have to be imported. We will be trading our dependence for mid east oil for Chinese, Russian, and South American raw materials needed to manufacture batteries and electric motors in quantities.

Oh Tim, don't be so negative!
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