Originally Posted by fathergoat

ZOMG! Consipiracy!

Um, no. Electric cars have been tried since the early 1900's.
http://inventors.about.com/library/w...selectrica.htm
At that time no one bought them because they were weak and expensive. The electirc cars today have become faster but are still expensive. While the initial cost of the car and operating costs aren't too bad, the maintance will kill you. Imagine buying 20 new batteries every five years. Oh, but electric cars are clean right? Bullshit. Just because it's not coming out of your exhuast doesn't mean you not polluting. The US get's 51.6% of it's electicity from burning coal. http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electri...m/epm_sum.html Imagine burning coal half the time to run your car becuase that's what you'd be doing. Then there is hazardous materials from the manufacture and disposal of the batteries. That's more environmental damage, but hey you don't see it so weeee! Hydrogen fuel cell cars are even worse because it takes more electicity to crack the hydrogen than it would to just charge a battery to run a car the same amount. Just because something sounds good doesn't mean it is. You should consider where the energy is coming from rateher than jump on the bandwagon. I'm sure someone is going to accuse me of not caring about the environment just because I'm not the that bandwagon. You couldn't be more wrong. I want to keep things clean, I'm just not willing to jump on a fad that could make things worse. The best answer we have right now that consumers(you know the people that drive the market) are willing to accept is ethanol. It's a renewable resource that is maginally cleaner than gasoline. If we switch to that and make cars more efficient at running on it. Then we could fund reasearch into a better fuel instead of half-assed fixes that simply transfer the pollution to another part of the country.