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Re: [T3] Wow!Check this out!


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





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