On Fri, 05 Jan 2018 16:26:30 -0500, DaveFroble
wrote:

Doomsdrzej wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 03:36:34 -0000 (UTC), Roger Blake
wrote:

On 2018-01-04, chrisv wrote:
Might I say that was an awesome post, sir.
His post was sheer idiocy. CO2 is not a pollutant - period.

Human caused "climate change/global warming" is junk science at
its worst. Even Reid Bryson, the scientist who was the father of
modern climate science, stated that it is "a bunch of hooey."

As I said, I absolutely refuse to reduce my own carbon emissions and
in fact continue to see ways to increase them. (Do you dumbass hippies
really believe that your stoopid windmills are solar panels are capable
of keeping people warm and alive in the deep freeze that so much of the
U.S. is currently experiencing?)

I'm going to hate myself for doing this ...

I _refuse_ to buy an electic car which has horrible range, little
storage and looks absolutely awful in the hope that mining lithium to
power them somehow causes less pollution than driving a regular,
gas-burning car.

Range, storage, and looks have nothing to do with electric vs gasoline. If some
goofy designer feels he has to make an electric car look like a golf cart,
that's his decision, not reality. As for pollution, it depends on how the
electricity is produced. How is mining any worse than drilling for oil?

The electic car HAS to look mostly bloated because the amount of
lithium they need to put into the car to get it to have decent range
is enormous. How Tesla managed to make a decent looking car despite
all of that metal is beyond me but they definitely deserve credit.

As for the oil statement, the point is not that oil drilling is better
than mining for lithium, it's that both are polluting the environment.
Therefore, there is no escaping the idea of polluting the environment
by choosing an electric car over a gas one. Both end up doing
something that the filthy hippies won't like.

I want power in my vehicle as well as the ability to drive as far as I
want to and that is something electric cars will never allow for.

An electric vehicle can have plenty of power. Just as in a gasoline fueled car,
it depends on how much energy one wishes to expend. As far as distance, you can
only go as far as the next gas station. Empty tank, or dead battery, both leave
you walking.

An empty gas tank can quickly be filled at one of the many gas
stations around any country. The process itself takes about 2 to 5
minutes depending on how much gas you need and you're ready to go the
moment you've filled up. In the case of electric, even with fast
charging, you need a good 30 minutes to get to 80%. You'll likely say
that the driver can stop for a **** or whatever, but if the distance
he needs to travel is significant, he'll be pretty annoyed about
stopping for a long **** every two hours and that's only assuming that
there will be a good number of electric charging stations around for
him.