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

[Paul Root]

Your forgetting, California hardly makes it's own power anymore.  
They're pushing their problem on somebody else, and that's good enough  
for them.



On Feb 27, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Rick Lindsay wrote:

> 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