This is the best shot we’ll ever have to change things.
from Joey Racano at
EarthSourceMedia and
http://www.littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org
The true cost of oil is war, asthma, environmental destruction, lost tourism and global climate change. No amount of money makes up for that. There is only one solution, and the oil companies fear it- Solar Panels on our rooftops and Electric Cars to drive.
1. Nickel-Metal Hydride is the only proven EV (Electric Vehicle) battery; after 100K or 200K miles NiMH can be remelted down into new batteries without new mining.
2. Instead of “research”, we need to start making and improving plug-in cars right now, not waiting for the perfect that never comes. Lowering cost is the name of the game.
2. Solar power and plug-in cars is the only sustainable way to power individual autos.
3. Running an EV 1000 miles per month takes only 250 kilo-Watt-hours of electric, about $25 worth; about what two old refrigerators cost and about a third of the average home usage.
4. It would take only a tenth of the average home roof — 6 square yards — to make 250 kWh per month, enough electric energy to run a plug-in car 1000 miles per month.
5. Because solar power and plug-in cars would cut oil profits, Big Oil has used its financial power to strangle and delay use of these obviously simple and working alternative to oil and coal.
6. No matter how many nuke or coal plants we build, it won’t replace one drop of oil unless there are plug-in cars to use the electric; but if we had plug-in cars, we wouldn’t even need new power plants. The money not spent on oil pays for solar. We can make it happen. And we should.
7. America’s largest open-pit coal mine is a witches cauldron of toxic waste and caustic destruction; but if the ground were left alone, and covered with solar panels, we’d get more electric energy from the same space (28,000 acres) than we get from the coal.
8. Instead of risking death in criminal coal mines, or skirting safety rules on oil rigs, the same workers could be manufacturing and installing solar panels and building and recycling electric plug-in cars and reforming their batteries.
9. Electric cars are all powered with American electrons; no electric is imported. Buying oil from people who hate us gives them our money and leaves only air and ground pollution, asthma and smog after it’s burned.
10. If there were no alternative to oil-fired cars, the permanent lung damage caused by burning oil might be necessary; but there IS an alternative, solar and plug-in cars. There is no higher cost than killing your kids lungs to enrich Big Oil.
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May 30th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
It is a breathe of fresh air “Literally” to hear a bit of common sense for a change. I came across your posting randomly and signed up just to say Hey.