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Originally Posted by davship
And that same small street has roughly 2 cars per house (mum/dad) then when the kiddies get there license, thats another car per kid. Most small streets in suburbia are lined with cars, going to be interesting with all the extension leads running across footpaths etc... what happens if you cant park your car outside your place and have to park a few doors down.
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The utterly stupid thing is everyone rabbiting on as though "Electric Cars" are going to save the planet.
Small, Economical, low-usage cars (that Electricals can replace) are barely a drop in the bucket of energy consumption and emissions.
And the completely insane part, is that we can't generate enough clean power as it is. So even if we could replace every taxi, bus, truck, heavy machinery, etc, with Electric, and even if that made a substantial difference in reallocating energy consumption, the only way we can provide that extra power is burning fossil fuels.
For decades the pot-heads raged against Hydro-Power and Nuclear power, stifling its growth, and even forcing governments to decommission plants. Now they have shifted their focus to fossil fuels, and the world is back building hydro and Nuclear plants.
Their brains explode every time somebody wants to build a jetty or reclaim 2sqm of foreshore, but they advocate Tidal-Power that would devastate hundreds of hectares of mangroves for very little benefit.
Pretty soon they're going to figure out that nobody wants wind-power in their backyard either.
At least in Australia, we can cover the outback in solar-panels, and that will keep our local idiots happy, but considering we consume 1.1% of the world's energy, WTF is the rest of the world supposed to do?