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Adam @ Nov 30th 2006 1:14AM
Coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants are more efficient than combustion engines. Pollution and cost are less because of this. Add in carbon scrubbers and pollution is way less from coal than oil. Plus, you narrow down what you have to clean. Instead of trying to regulate 200 million cars, we can regulate 2000 power plants to clean them up. We are America, the Saudi Arabia of coal. With coal gasification a power plant that turns the uses natural gas created from the coal and burns the coal itself to create power. This can produce 20% more power from the same amount of coal. These plants are being built today, only a couple hundred more million per power plant. Coal supports America not foreign dictators. Therefore, if you are going to drive 10 miles to work or the store, I'd rather you did it on coal, natural gas, or nuclear; than oil. Of course, if you buy wind, solar, or other power this is almost 100% clean and best for all of us.
Brownouts need to get fixed anyways. That is something as America we have to deal with. One way is like FedEx and Verizon. Verizon uses natural gas with fuel cells to power its headquarters. FedEx has a solar DC in San Fran. More moves like this will lessen the load on the grids. Technology will also lessen the load on grids; LCD monitors, florescent bulbs, new appliances, new central air systems, all use less power. Odds are anyways you will be charging cars at night when there is very little load on the grids.
We got ourselves into this mess saying how everything is stupid and doesn't make sense with today's standards. We need to all make an effort to get out of this mess. We need to look to the future and make moves that will help. I'm glad GM is finally taking another step after scraping the EV1s.