BILL BAUER wrote in a message to Brian Lane:
> (boy, now I'm gonna get flamed by the electric car folks...)
 BB> Well, maybe I am dense or dumb or stupid or something, but 
 BB> seems to me like going to electric cars isn't going to solve 
 BB> much of anything. While it's true that the cars themselves 
 BB> won't pollute nearly as much as the gas engine ones do but the 
 BB> additional power needed to charge those cars up are going to do 
 BB> about as much polluting as the gas engine cars did. I think 
 BB> it's an awfully poor swap.
Well,  the argument for that one is that supposedly emissions can be 
controlled a whole lot easier at a stationary power plant,  but there are a 
number of practical arguments *against* the idea of electric cars:
1.  Limited range.  The recent news story I saw about one still talked about 
the thing as a commuter's vehicle,  nothing more.
2.  Limited capacity.  That same news story pointed out that the darn thing 
didn't even carry a spare tire!
3.  Power need.  I read an article some time back that ran the numbers,  and 
if you were to convert all of our existing transportation as it exists now 
(assuming that it was feasible for technological reasons) you'd have to 
*double* the existing power grid.  Not too likely...
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