Heh, didn't even notice that until you pointed it out. Basically he got called out on giving out bad advice and rather than admit his mistake he got mad. A nice, old-fashioned, small-penis response. 😊
Incidentally as a counter to my argument comes news that South Korea is going to start subsidizing fuel purchases as well, so the trend is going in the wrong direction right now.
AtmaWeapon wrote:It means taking the fart pipe off of your stupid ricemobile and gently accelerating after stopping.
Sig material.
Y'know, electric cars are actually a lot more efficient than internal combustion engines. Even if we still burn coal to generate electricity, it takes a lot less coal burned to generate enough electricity to power a car than it does gasoline to power an internal combustion engine. The reason behind it is that in producing energy in bulk, you can do it a lot more efficiently than trying to generate energy in a way that fits inside a car (to put it another way, you sacrifice a lot of efficiency in making a power generator that is small enough to be portable). The long and the short of it is, if they can work out the issue of batteries, electric cars promise to be a lot cheaper to operate, and a lot less polluting.
Why do we always talk like coal is the only means of generating electricity? Nuclear power's a lot safer than it used to be, and it's way better than coal. Random studies I've found from time to time seem to suggest we lose more coal miners annually than the projected number of people that would be affected by having more nuclear plants, though you can take that with a grain of salt since I have no official source to cite.
My only guess is the waste is more tricky to get rid of than the supporters would have me believe.
It's only tricky because people in Nevada are worried about their groundwater. Otherwise we have a great landfill ready for nuclear waste.
There's huge roadblocks to getting a new plant built. I heard that with all the red tape it takes something like 20 years to go through approval and finish building it.