[Mgs] OT : Tesla - in the flesh!!

[Rick Lindsay]

I get a kick out of all the emphasis, praise and glory that electric vehicles get.  Just yesterday there was a glowing piece on NPR about new electric trucks introduced at LA and Longbeach ports.  Everyone was just drooling over how GREEN everything was.  Lots of folks there patting themselves on the back.  Perhaps they didn't read the bit about the electricity that they use being generated by coal-fired power plants.  Electric vehicles just transfer the source of the pollution away from the wealthy, artsy neighborhoods to the blue collar neighborhoods where the power plants were built!   That's right.  There's no free lunch.

rick