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In article <2i8sob$qb@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu>,
Wael El-Sharif <waele@seas.gwu.edu> wrote:
>I have to disagree, new cars are less of a problem than old cars. Electric
>vehicles are much cleaner; granted the technology is not yet perfect but it
>is getting there.


	What makes you think EVs are cleaner?  They may be locally
	cleaner (e.g., no local emissions, only battery-related pollution) 
	but the charge in those batteries was produced at a power plant. 
	It is unrealistic to seriously claim that most people will be recharging
	their cars at night when "demands are less."  

	We're going to have to build new power plants if EVs get anywhere. 
	It's a fact of life.  Another fact: they're not going to be nice,
	clean nuclear plants because the environmentalists have done a nice
	job getting legislation enacted and spreading fear.  They're going
	to be oil plants.  Coal plants.  Hydroelectric plants.  None of which
	are as benign to the environment as the nuclear option.


>  When EVs are commercialized the price will drop and 
>with the on-going improvements in battery technology, performance will
>improve leaving no excuses.


	It depends on how you define "battery technology"--it's pretty unlikely
	that current battery technologies will _ever_ evolve into something
	that will make EVs of equal safety and performance to gasoline cars
	possible.  Alternatives (e.g., flywheels) might do the trick, but 
	then again, they might not.  




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