> CFBs and LEDs are inherently more complex and costly > than old incandescents. But we’ve “externalized” those costs > (and their carbon footprint and energy of production) to China, > which is using cheap coal for goods production ...
The excuse of "china" and their coal consumption is so 2008 legacy and triggers a response... Every person in China got the message at the 2008 Olympics that coal was killing them. SInce then China has so completely reversed course that they are eating our lunch. In 2013 they installed more solar and wind in one year than we have done to date. And this year, their investment in solar and wind is DOUBLE the entire investment of the USA in clean energy. We are even behind the Europeans I think. China is phasing out coal faster than we are, switching to solar and wind faster than we are, and now with our new administration we are even going backwards by promising to shut down clean energy ( and 13 million new forward thinking jobs) and to restore COAL (and only a few thousand dead-end jobs). I fear we hold on too long to the news of the past and we are not thinking clearly to the future... Glad to hear the BOLT won top honors at the Autoshows! and it is AMERICAN! Bob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20170109/8bebc384/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
