Lex Foutish
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The Government announcement today, about grants for electric cars, put me thinking. What's going to happen when we finally run out of oil? Will we all be using electric cars, stopping on our trips to Dublin and Kerry, to recharge them? Or will we be using fuel like hydrogen to power vehicles?
I honestly don't know but I'd be interested in the opinions of sagacious AAM posters...........
Brazil made the switch to Enthanol many years ago. I think Biofuels will become more popular before Electric cars etc. What this will do to world food markets is another issue.
But hydrogen is every bit as dependant on fossil fuels.
The Government announcement today, about grants for electric cars, put me thinking. What's going to happen when we finally run out of oil? Will we all be using electric cars, stopping on our trips to Dublin and Kerry, to recharge them? Or will we be using fuel like hydrogen to power vehicles?
I honestly don't know but I'd be interested in the opinions of sagacious AAM posters...........
Hydrogen, Oil, Enthanol, Gas etc... It doesn't matter what we use as we will still harm the environment.
Even with electric powered cars the electricity still has to be generated by some power source (oil/wind/solar) and massive amounts of money and energy will have to be spent it R&D to develop this.
The truth is the population is increasing and the bigger population makes more demands on the planet. Therefore, anything the Green parties put in place to help the environment is only a stop gap. Akin to giving a dying man a glass of water.
Nobody wants to go back to pre industrial life and embrace agriculture so its about time world governments really grabbed the bull by the horns and came up with a master plan.
We need to colonise another planet! I am sure there are plenty out there and we would be better advised to try and find them rather than spending fortunes trying to come up with ways to "save the earth" which is only prolonging the agony of the sick patient.
I have seen the movie Avatar and there are lessons to be learnt here on how to subdue the native population when we find a suitable planet.
love the idea of the electric powered cars - the batteries can be disposed of in an extremely ecological way, they are very suitable for commuting and so reliable
They're more expensive to make and those batteries aren't the nicest thing to the environment, plus the charging is going to be a massive issue which is why they'll only ever be city cars. No harm in them for the school run, but I wouldn't be using them to get to Kerry.
...and how many people it will cause to starve to death, and how much pollution it will cause to waterways as phosphates are used in massive amounts to grow crops on soil that doesn't suit them...
Widespread use of Bio-fuels would be an environmental disaster.
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