lil red
Well-Known Member
the whole idea of everyone enjoying electric vehicles to wean us from imported oil is such a farce.
if your buying a prius for fuel economy thats one thing (mind you an 85 diesel jetta got better mileage) , but if your doing it for the environment thats crap, the majority of the electricity produced is from fossil fuels. can you emagine how much electric load would be placed on an already strained north american power grid if everyone owned electric vehicles???if you covered this planet with windmills you wouldn't have enough power
here in N.S. an electric GM Volt would add an extra 30-40 bucks per month to my 120-150 power bill - right now we burn 85%coal/natural gas and can barely meet provincial demand let alone the 25-35% increase in load (all at the same time mind you - night) that the grid couldn't handle.
windmills!!!!- everybody says , that lovely commercial of a Prius driving by a windmill with 2.5 kids smiling out an open window - thats crap - there are at least 2 days per month that the wind doesn't blow - at all!!! across our province anyway!!! that means our 250 megawatts of wind isn't working, these things are only 30% efficient to begin with!!and you still need the eqivalent in another power source for every megawatt produced..
we joke at work about putting electric motors in widmills when they break down ,there a pig to work on but as long as they turn there great PR - especially for Prius owners!!
sorry for the rant but big oil is here to stay as long as theres greed and profit
if your buying a prius for fuel economy thats one thing (mind you an 85 diesel jetta got better mileage) , but if your doing it for the environment thats crap, the majority of the electricity produced is from fossil fuels. can you emagine how much electric load would be placed on an already strained north american power grid if everyone owned electric vehicles???if you covered this planet with windmills you wouldn't have enough power
here in N.S. an electric GM Volt would add an extra 30-40 bucks per month to my 120-150 power bill - right now we burn 85%coal/natural gas and can barely meet provincial demand let alone the 25-35% increase in load (all at the same time mind you - night) that the grid couldn't handle.
windmills!!!!- everybody says , that lovely commercial of a Prius driving by a windmill with 2.5 kids smiling out an open window - thats crap - there are at least 2 days per month that the wind doesn't blow - at all!!! across our province anyway!!! that means our 250 megawatts of wind isn't working, these things are only 30% efficient to begin with!!and you still need the eqivalent in another power source for every megawatt produced..
we joke at work about putting electric motors in widmills when they break down ,there a pig to work on but as long as they turn there great PR - especially for Prius owners!!
sorry for the rant but big oil is here to stay as long as theres greed and profit
