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On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 18:12, The Rossos wrote: > > > hmmmmm, burn fossil fuel, or bury all those batteries after they are no > > longer good? i know 3 guys with ghias that are converted to electric > > cars, the motor lasts forever, but them batteries don't! > > Plus you end up burning fossil fuel at the power plant unless you have > nuclear, hydro or solar. And if you do have a fossil plant, with all the > inefficiencies of converting the fuel into kinetic energy, then into > electricity, then charging batteries, then back to kinetic energy, you will > probably be buring more fuel per mile traveled at the plant than the good > old VW four-banger would. Electricity doesn't just majically appear at the > electrical outlet. > Amen -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/