🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <nkav24d81o82137h48nbjdk01mbr27jlc1@4ax.com>, 
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com says...
> On Fri, 16 May 2008 17:21:51 -0400, "Paul E. Schoen"
> <pstech@smart.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> >"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> wrote in message 
> >news:ieidnSvlPKQURrDVnZ2dnUVZ_qjinZ2d@earthlink.com...
> >>
> >> Reality.  There isn't enough generating capacity to convert to electric
> >> cars.
> >
> >It may not exist at the moment, but the switch to electric (as well as 
> >other more efficient vehicles) must be accompanied by an overall reduction 
> >in our total per-capita energy consumption. Even if new electric power 
> >plants would be built, using the same fossil fuels that now power 
> >automobiles, they would be much more efficient and cleaner than millions of 
> >individual cars and trucks being driven in stop-and-go traffic. But the 
> >ultimate resolution to this problem will involve people changing their 
> >lifestyles, using more public transportation, living closer to jobs (or 
> >telecommuting), and generally becoming a more cooperative society living 
> >and working closely with other people, rather than isolationism, needless 
> >competition, and broken families.
> 
> Non-competitive paradises like Cuba and North Korea? They certainly
> aren't suffering from glutted super-highways or packed shopping-center
> parking lots. And they have excellent energy conservation techniques:
> the power is only on a few hours a day.

Wait a year; that's Obama's energy plan too.

-- 
Keith