That article is an attack on Tesla more than EVs in general...... and then there is this..... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-farm-bureaus-big-business/
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 18, 2018, at 10:52 PM, brucedp5 via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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) > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20181219/3e44e4ed/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ 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)
