I hope your wrong (especially since I'm about to become a grandad) but GW is just one of many signs that we are racing toward a global population crash of biblical proportions.
Let me preface this by saying that I am all for electric vehicles but I just had an interesting thought. Assuming we're talking about mostly "plug-in" vehicles wouldn't switching large amounts of the populace over to EVs set up the infrastructure for a single point of failure? (The power grid). In the case of a power outage such as: Northeast Blackout of 2003 you would have large amounts of the population that would be unable to drive their vehicles. A couple of caveats: 1) This is more of an issue with the current state of our power distribution system than with EVs. 2) Increasing the effective range per charge on EVs would put them on equal footing with gasoline powered vehicles in case of emergency.
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I hope your wrong (especially since I'm about to become a grandad) but GW is just one of many signs that we are racing toward a global population crash of biblical proportions.
Dogs and cats living together ... mass hysteria!!!
Let me preface this by saying that I am all for electric vehicles but I just had an interesting thought. Assuming we're talking about mostly "plug-in" vehicles wouldn't switching large amounts of the populace over to EVs set up the infrastructure for a single point of failure? (The power grid). In the case of a power outage such as: Northeast Blackout of 2003 you would have large amounts of the population that would be unable to drive their vehicles. A couple of caveats: 1) This is more of an issue with the current state of our power distribution system than with EVs. 2) Increasing the effective range per charge on EVs would put them on equal footing with gasoline powered vehicles in case of emergency.