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Originally Posted by TimMullen
Don't mean to be negative, but I tend to like to think things through. The future "shortages" from electric cars was from an analysis that I read - talking about what it took to build up to manufacture electrical car components in large volume. Unfortunately most of the resources that we would need are either controlled by countries not necessarily "friendly" with the US, and/or they have their own economy ramping up and needing more and more resources (China for example). There's even a limited supply of the material needed to make the magnets for the electric motors (at least if they want them to be efficient).
The siwitch to electric cars might seem like a good thing, but the reality is that we could become even more dependant on foreign imports than we are now. 
It's along the lines of "climate change". Everything now is to do what ever we need to do to keep things from changing. But not too many have actually looked at whether it would be a good thing on not. For instance, one change that a warmer climate may make is more productive farm land - a longer growing season and much more land advaialbe for farming. At the same time, "they" are predicting that, because of a growing world population, we will need to double the food production over the next 50 years. Just maybe, that "global warming" might be a good thing - people might be a couple of degrees warmer (or they move North), but they may have food in their stomachs.
Everything in this world is a system that has to meet many compromises. The compromises need to be examined for all possibilities, not just the wones that scare people with the big headlines.  |
yeah but... if the earth does globably warm a "few degrees" - we are pretty much at epic destruction. not to sat we can't move our foundations of civilization to ...say.. denver...
we are wholey unprepared for mainstream EV's, we have an energy problem and EV's do not have anything to do with solving that problem - and more likely, as Tim says - it causes more problems. we need to mandate our building energy usage that constitues nearly 70% of electricity used in the US, and the bulk of waste and clean water consumption... then, everything is much eaiser to solve.
if there is a problem fix the issue, however no one is really interested in fixing the issues.
no wonder altanta/ga for example is facing it current problems? no one saw that coming 5 -10 years ago... yea... ev's will fix that! ha!