https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/readers/2018/12/14/letter-electric-vehicle-owners-and-farmers-must-work-together/2314249002/ Letter: Electric vehicle owners and farmers must work together Dec. 14, 2018 Bob Ward, Urbandale Mida
[image / MidAmerican Energy Company https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2018/08/22/PDEM/d372918d-008a-4966-8b03-4e3ccba11c38-MidA.jpg Compared to conventional vehicles, electric vehicles reduce fuel costs, cut petroleum consumption and reduce tailpipe emissions. ] Some years ago, I purchased an electric car out of concern for the environment. I suspect some farmers are producing biofuels with the same concern. After all, farmers are the ones suffering first-hand the negative effects of extreme heat and rain events caused by global warming. I would like to think that electric car owners and concerned farmers are working together to preserve our natural environment. But along comes a former representative of the Farm Bureau, attempting to pit the two groups against each other (Tax credits for electric vehicles are a threat to Iowa farmers [ https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2018/12/11/tax-credits-electric-vehicles-threat-iowa-farmers-ethanol-corn-biofuels/2276184002/ ]). At first glance, it is strange for the Farm Bureau to decry modest tax incentives for electric cars in light of the huge amounts of federal monies flowing to American agriculture. However, the most troublesome aspect of the column is a total disregard for the way we all have to work together — farmers and owners of electric vehicles — to address the globally destructive effects of carbon emissions. I hope that members of the Farm Bureau will contact their leaders and urge them to join in the movement to save the natural world on which we all rely. [© desmoinesregister.com] For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
