Please, I beg your indulgence for a short editorial concerning EV and PIH versus "Big Oil."
I feel the conflict is Hyperbole. And "Fear Mongering" the actual facts are not so bad for "Big Oil" as much as changing with the times concerning only fuel retailing which is not a very profitable segment of the Petroleum market. EV and Hybrids (PIH) do not effect the petroleum and Electrical grid in the USA very much. The effect on the electrical grid is minimized; each electric car uses power from the grid, or alternative sources, in the same magnitude as refining gasoline consumes electricity to provide fuel for conventional vehicles. Natural gas and coal usage for electrical production will remain as in the past, the changes to their proportions is going to change from Ecology concerns, irrespective of the EV and PIH usage. Petroleum from wells located in the USA will continue to provide fuel for heavy trucks, other diesels, the great plastic, chemical, and paint industries, only the importing of offshore imported petroleum will slacken. *Dennis Lee Miles * *Director **E.V.T.I. Inc.* *E-Mail:* *evprofes...@evprofessor.com* <evprofes...@evprofessor.com> *Phone #* *(863) 944-9913* Dade City, Florida 33523 USA On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 2:09 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV < ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > On 24 May 2014 at 7:37, Electric Blue auto convertions via EV wrote: > > > Im getting sick and tired of hearing people blaming " big oil" for all > the > > worlds problems. > > Our modern society is built on and dependent on petroleum. We have > sophisticated plastics. We have air travel. We have space travel. It's > quite possible that none of that would have happened without petroleum. > > We also have cancer and other diseases related to chemicals from petroleum > and pollution from petroleum. We have oil spills killing plants and > animals > that people depend on for survival. It's quite possible that none of THAT > would have happened without petroleum. > > I know, if we want the benefits, we have to accept some harm. However, a > rational society would say, "Let's regulate this. Let's try to maintain > the > benefits we get from oil, but also mitigate the harm with sensible > legislative control of these oil companies." > > Some of that actually did happen 40-50 years ago here in the US, Europe, > and > some parts of Asia. Then the oil companies, like others, discovered that > modest investments in political systems paid big dividends in profit. > > > Im making money just sitting on my ass. > > Not really. You worked for the money that you loaned them by buying stock, > no? > > However, you should realize that your investment is working against EVs. > That's your own business you're undermining! If someday those big oil > companies decide to buy laws restricting or banning conversion of ICEVs to > EVs, you'd join those unemployed Golf Coast fishermen in looking for other > work. > > BP, Shell, Exxon, and all the rest don't care. We're nothing to them. > > Meanwhile, the stock dividends you get depend on how well your companies > evade and defeat the few laws that protect your health and your job. Some > folks would call that tainted money. > > There are good reasons that some of us want to see more legal restrictions > on the damage oil companies can do to people and the world around them. > > All that said, the EVDL is NOT the place to debate this issue. > > However, when we talk about EVs, it's inevitable that sometimes we're going > to talk about the immense political and economic power that oil companies > have long used to keep EVs down. > > So, you're sick and tired of it. I'm sorry to hear that. Maybe you should > set up an email filter so you don't see those posts. As my mom used to say > to my dad when he said he was sick and tired of something, "Then you'd > better see a doctor and get some sleep." ;-) > > David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA > EVDL Administrator > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not > reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my > email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > > _______________________________________________ > 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) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140524/8313dbe9/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)
