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GM Pulls Plug on Electric Car
davebo writes "General Motors' EV1, the all-electric dynamo of a car, has been pulled from the market. You can read the letter GM sent out to current EV1 drivers here. When the EV1 came out, the chairman of GM said it would
"define the GM of the future". Guess he'd like to take that back now . . ." With Ford also cancelling their electric vehicle program, looks like hybrids are it for the next few years.
You stupid jewish shill. Stop wiping your ass with twenties that the auto companies gave you. There are more ways to make electricity than to use oil. That way we don't have to buy oil from Habib and his towel-head friends. Maybe we can harness the energy from the screams of altar boys being fucked by Father Mick.
fuck women up the ass
Whoa whoa there, big fella. While I agree in principle with the concept that you're simply moving pollution around when switching to an electric car, going nooklyear is moving the pollution around too - on a different dimension to be sure than with a coal-fired plant to be sure, but you are still moving pollution around. With a coal plant, you have these huge stacks spewing out this godawful greenish, yellowish, brown smoke all over the place, and anybody who can see or smell will agree that this is pollution. But a nuke plant is more subtle - no smoke, a little steam perhaps from the cooling system, but nothing gets released into the air or water.
Fast forward about five years, when the reactor core is too hot to be of any use anymore. The plant takes the core offline, and strips it out to be replaced with fresh material. The old core, which will be hot for at least 10,000 years, is then summarily shipped off to, um, where? Did you say you wanted it in your back yard? No? You nimby! You must be from Nevada - that state is inexplicably resisting having the rest of the US dumping it's nuclear waste on it. Those Nevadans must be unpatriotic.
But I digress. My point is, with a nuke plant, you're time-shifting the pollution from your EV-1, rather than space-shifting it the way you would if your powerplant is coal. Still a pollution shift, but the rotten bit is how it's now foisted off on the great-grandkids, who had no say in the matter when it was decided.
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If you want nuclear power stations, then prepare for weapons inspections. The reason that nuclear power is popular (despite the danger and unsustainable waste production) is that it is useful for making weapons. That is also why the US government doesn't want 'rogue states' using nuclear power stations, and why I don't want the US using nuclear power stations.
Perhaps alcohol powered cars is the solution (until fusion power becomes efficient).
Actually he just realized that there is no future for alternative energy.
The replicans will just nuke whoever they want to get the oil they need.
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky
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