I happened to be surfing around the web, and came across this little
gem at the Daily Grist
http://www.grist.org/etc/letters/2002/07/19/letters-energy/index.html
. World-wide fame for one bikie!
-Mike
Re: EV-ing Can't Wait, Daily Grist
Dear Editor:
While I support the concept of electric vehicles, I have to object to
describing them as "non-polluting." Behind every one is a roaring
gas-fired electricity generation turbine, or worse, in most cases, an
enormous pile of dirty coal producing the electricity that recharges
their batteries. I would like to see a comparison of life-cycle
emissions per mile among diesel, gasoline, hybrid, and all-electric
vehicles. That seems to be the best criterion we can use to compare
these vehicles.
I'd also like to see a discussion of health benefits or drawbacks in
regard to people living in proximity to heavy-traffic-volume streets.
I.e., whether in fact fossil-fuel vehicles pose the greatest harm by
emitting pollutants at lung level, and that the harm would be more
equitably spread out among the populace via a tall smoke stack at a
rural or urban power plant generating electricity for tens of
thousands of EVs and the homes where their drivers live.
Jeff Schimpff
Madison, Wisc.
P.S. In light of the author's admission that he lives not far from
his workplace, does he ever ride a bike to work for some truly
enjoyable, infinitesimally small-scale-polluting commuting?
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