[s-cars] Thought provoking stuff......NAC

[James Murray (QB/EMC)]

Jim, I hear ya... Regarding the C02 being off the charts, I found this
documentary from BBC particulary interesting: 

The Great Global Warming Swindle - Documentary Film - Google Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f8v5du5_ag

Now that's not to take away from environmental responsibility, but I
wonder how many are fuelling untruths at the opposite spectrum to
satisfy their own greed? 

It was "Field of Dreams" with Kevin Costner.

/Jamu.

P.S. S-Fest in a "Smart Car"?... BTDT! ;-)



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[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Jim Fleischer
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 12:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [s-cars] Thought provoking stuff......NAC

Good stuff guys, but I'm not buying the fact that there is no
demand.......they had to pry the EV-1 out of the owners hands, and if
the benefits of the electric car were marketed, not the limitations,
there would be much more interest.  GM says it spent millions marketing
the car in the late 90's......funny, I was a subscriber to many car
magazines back then and fail to remember even one advertisement.  I
think it was some baseball movie not long ago that stated "If you build
it, they will come."  GM, Ford and Honda built it, they came, then they
were taken away.  California had electric car charging stations built,
the infrastructure was happening, then Big Oil and the car manufacturers
pressured the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to renig on their
demands of zero emissions cars by a certain time period.  (watch the
movie, it's really pretty sad what happened politically)

As far as sh*t having to hit the fan before we decide it's time to
rethink our transportation technology, well it may be too late by then.
Scientific evidence about C02 in the atmosphere is currently off the
charts, meaning we really have no idea what the effects may be in the
near or distant future.  Big business is obviously only interested in
big profits, however, look where GM and Ford are right now......sucking
wind, laying off thousands, while companies like Toyota are selling
through.  What company has the most hybrid vehicles out there?  Toyota?
Maybe a coincidence, maybe not.  Do you guys think that the Car
manufacturers and Big Oil aren't in bed with eachother on this one?
They need eachother, as big oil would not exist without the Internal
Combustion Engine.

As far as Hydrogen fuel cells go, it is estimated that they won't be
viable for another 15-20 years.  Then you have the huge expense of
installing fueling stations for the hydrogen.  Oh, has anyone priced
Hydrogen lately?  Noone ever brings that up, but supposedly it is
already more expensive than gasoline, and not as efficient.  Plus, you
still end up "paying the man."  Wouldn't electric cars charged by wind
power or solar energy make so much more sense?

I guess what I'm trying to say is that there are technologies out there
that could truly help with our environmental predicament, whether it be
Global Warming, or simply smog in L.A. and Salt Lake, they are viable,
and there is enough cash out there that if they were offered, I think
there are enough people concerned about our footprint on this earth that
they would buy them.  There are people at the highest levels of
government and corporations that are standing in the way, to secure
their future profits for generations to come.  Well it's starting to
piss me off, and I hope that others will start getting PO'd as well.
  
I really do hope that some of you will go and rent the movie.....there
are some aspects of the way the whole EV thing was handled that are
pretty enlightening, and maybe, just maybe, a little public knowledge
will be a dangerous thing to the current establishment.

Thanks for listening.....

Jim Fleischer
'95 S6 Avant
'91 200TQ
'83 ur

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