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Mr. Benson:

I find the electric car issue to be fascinating because it places
"pro-environment" types in the awkward position of defending the
widespread use of a highly toxic material (at least over short term) and
advocating the perpetuation and growth of the centralized electrical power
generation industry.

How will we avoid the need to mine for more lead if we are to convert a
large percentage of our automobile fleet to lead-acid battery powered
electric motors?  By recycling the 20 pound battery in the gasoline
powered car that each electric car with its multi-hundred pound battery
pack displaces?   

You don't even touch on the issue of the inefficiency of converting fossil
fuel to electrical power.

Why do we even want electric cars?  Compressed natural gas cars perform as
well as gasoline autos with existing technology, consume less energy per
mile driven than electric cars ever will and emit about the same
quantities of priority pollutants as similar electric vehicles when the
full energy conversion cycle is taken into account.

Your thoughts?

John Conlan