I am tired of driving. I could go with some autonomous help. I have all manner of more important things to do, reading, knitting, eating, drinking! It would particularly nice if it was safer than driving. Automobile accidents are the leading public health menace we have. The only thing that comes close is infections contracted while in the hospital.
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:28 PM, damon henry <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > From: [email protected] > > Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:33:29 +0000 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [EVDL] RE, zoom zoom > > > > EBAC - or whoever you really are... > > > > I feel your true character is leaking out, at last! > > > > How any serious 'EV converter' could countenance having *any* petrol > pumps involved in his business, let alone 6, is beyond me. MW > > > > > Really, you can't like EV's and even advocate for them without spitting > and sputtering and detesting the fuel that has created the industrial > world, (for good and bad) that we have today. Give me a break. I love EVs > as much as anyone, but when it comes time to take an 800 mile road trip > with my family (something that is not that unusual here in the US where we > have room to roam) I hop in my 8 seat 20mpg SUV and enjoy the comfort and > the ride and the convenience of a quick fillup every 300 - 400 miles. I > don't believe there will ever be an EV that can match what my SUV gives me > in those situations.Just remember that the original gas powered automobiles > were heralded as great environmental improvements as they eliminated the > piles of horse manure off the streets. It was only many years and 100s of > millions of vehicles later that the true environmental costs began to come > to light. I can't imagine that EVs in the same numbers as petrol powered > cars would not pose some serio > us unforeseen environmental consequences of their own. > damon > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140113/d81fa3cd/attachment.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * Tell me what it is you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, "The summer day." To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk [email protected] <[email protected]> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140113/89f24770/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
