While the electricity has to come from somewhere for electric vehicles, they're still much more enviromentally friendly. Even if the electricity is being produced by coal power plants it is still a much more efficient power source which centralizes pollution rather than spreading it out. And if all those cars stopped using gasoline we could use the oil saved in more efficient oil power plants.
Either way electric cars remain much more efficient than internal combustion engines, and if the electricity comes from renewable or nuclear energy sources they'll produce close to no pollutants.
Not Toronto but Montreal. Toronto subway system still, sadly, had the wonderful ride quality of hard steel. Montreal's subway system on the other hand uses inflated tires, probably just car tires.
Osama and friends are more like pissed of rich boys than they are 'good muslims'. Chances are we wont find him, so the next best thing is to make it very crappy for him to live...
Well, here goes nothing (or to be exact, a whole lotta karma).
I couldn't disagree more with this statement. Osama bin Ladin, while being worth something in the range of 20-30 million, is not some pissed off rich boy. There is very little chance that he could ever be flushed out by making life crappy for him. In fact, the way that he gained popularity among resistance fighters some 15 years ago was by living like they did, on rations and in a caves, bunkers and trenches.
There is very little hope that Osama bin Ladin's life could be made less comfortable than it already is. How do you reduce the quality of life of a man that lives in caves and bunkers and must move everyday for fear of capture (it is believed that he has about 5-10 lookalikes trained to confuse American intelligence)?
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While the electricity has to come from somewhere for electric vehicles, they're still much more enviromentally friendly. Even if the electricity is being produced by coal power plants it is still a much more efficient power source which centralizes pollution rather than spreading it out. And if all those cars stopped using gasoline we could use the oil saved in more efficient oil power plants.
Either way electric cars remain much more efficient than internal combustion engines, and if the electricity comes from renewable or nuclear energy sources they'll produce close to no pollutants.
Not Toronto but Montreal. Toronto subway system still, sadly, had the wonderful ride quality of hard steel. Montreal's subway system on the other hand uses inflated tires, probably just car tires.
Osama and friends are more like pissed of rich boys than they are 'good muslims'. Chances are we wont find him, so the next best thing is to make it very crappy for him to live...
Well, here goes nothing (or to be exact, a whole lotta karma).
I couldn't disagree more with this statement. Osama bin Ladin, while being worth something in the range of 20-30 million, is not some pissed off rich boy. There is very little chance that he could ever be flushed out by making life crappy for him. In fact, the way that he gained popularity among resistance fighters some 15 years ago was by living like they did, on rations and in a caves, bunkers and trenches.
There is very little hope that Osama bin Ladin's life could be made less comfortable than it already is. How do you reduce the quality of life of a man that lives in caves and bunkers and must move everyday for fear of capture (it is believed that he has about 5-10 lookalikes trained to confuse American intelligence)?