Originally Posted by
Mike Cutler
Electric vehicles are coming. It will take time to develop the infrastructure, but it will happen.
In the early days of gasoline powered vehicles, trips revolved around the location of "Filling Stations". As the demand for these increased, the need was met. The same will happen with the electric cars. Right now they are suited to the more urban environment, but will expand.
Renewable energies will certainly progress also, but this thread was about cars.
Art Mann
"As far as the environment goes, it is in better shape now than it has been in the last 50 years I have been paying attention to it."
Yathin Krishnappa
"Are you trying to troll or do you really believe that?"
I do not believe that Art is "trolling". I also agree with Art. I am 59 years old and I can tell you that we are much better off today, than in 1978.
The US has increased it's population by 150 million people since 1968, and a 125million since 1978. The time frame between 1968 and 1978 was probably the beginning of the environmental awareness in the country. Also the beginning of some of the government agencies that regulate environmental cleanliness.
For having an increase in 150 million people over the past 50 years, we are a lot better off environmentally than where we were in 1978. Had we not had the awareness that began in the late 60's, going outside today would be just awful.
This isn't trolling, this is the experience of living through all of these changes.
I work in a facility that puts 2200 Megawatts to the grid with zero carbon pollution, in any weather condition. Yet we are not the future. People want to believe in "free energy", such as solar panels, but it doesn't exist. Energy is not free, there is always a price.