Billy Burpelson wrote:

Bob wrote:

The other concern is the losses in the grid distribution. We use oil
based fuels to generate electricity at a conversion loss...

True...no one has repealed the laws of thermodynamics. But please
realize that *nothing* is lossless. The point I was trying to emphasize
about electric vehicles is that you are centralizing pollution control
at a (relatively) few power plants rather than over millions of cars
with IC engines.

...and then lose more in line losses.

Not as much as you might think, at least not since AC won out over DC
transmission around the turn of the last century (Bless you Mr. Tesla,
Mr. Westinghouse). Power is sent at extremely high voltages (so lower
current) to minimize the I squared R (power) loss. And once again, the
whole point is centralization, acceptable losses notwithstanding.

It seems that the politicians and environmentalists aren't too
interested in other scientific input.

Bob, you don't know how right you are. The current Administration has
been notorious for ignoring science.

Yep, Bill Clinton was well known for being interested in science. :-)

Bob wrote:

It seems that the politicians and environmentalists aren't too
interested in other scientific input.

Billy Burpelson wrote:

Bob, you don't know how right you are. The current Administration
has been notorious for ignoring science.

dxAce wrote:

Yep, Bill Clinton was well known for being interested in science. :-)

Um, that wouldn't have been the scientific study he did on cigar
flavorings, was it?