Quote Originally Posted by texas grass
hey rusty i do believe im on nuclear power for texas. and isnt texas on its own power grid unlike any other state.

as for carbon credits, thats the biggest load of crap there is, waste away and pay someone so you feel better. what a joke.

and ill drive a 300lb car like billions of other people especially with gas at $4 a gallon. we have the infustructure and technology to have electric cars. we dont have the infustructure for hydrogen, ethenol or other forms that they are have tried.

plain and simply the electric car is our best bet. can plug em in anywhere you go. unlike other forms of hybrids
Except for the fact that only just a few years ago we had black outs across multiple states. Imagine if everyone was plugging in to charge their car

couple that with the fact that one of our largest energy producers.. Hoover Dam will most likely not be producing energy in 20-25 years due water levels receding quickly.

And for those people who are talking about a 300lb Car. The electric car was used in California produced by GM. It was called the EV1. Ford had a similar car called the THiNK I think.. lol The state of california had mandated that 10% of all vehicles sold between something like 1996-2002 (don't quote me on this.. those years are most likely wrong but it was something around this time frame I think). The car looked very much like a Geo Storm and could get up to 120 miles per charge I believe.

General Motors EV1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

We do have the infrastructure for Natural Gas. Natural Gas vehicles emit 30% less pollution that Gasoline motors and 23% less emissions than diesel. On top of that we have an ENORMOUS amount of natural gas reserves.

We have like 4 natural Gas filling stations in the area that I live in. It's unfortunate that more NGV vehicles are not being sold as we try to make this transition.