Road to Nowhere
I’ll leave it to Ed Morrissey at HotAir to explain exactly why electric cars are NOT the future, because he does it so well.
But I will summarize. Transferring the power source from the gas pump to the electrical socket won’t mean one less carbon atom emitted, if we continue to generate electricity from coal. It would if we switched over to nuclear power, but find me one Democrat who supports that move. Go on, just one, I’ll wait.
Even more disheartening for you greenies is EM’s point about batteries. The latest technology relies on lithium. By switching from internal combustion engines to battery powered engines, we just transfer our reliance on oil to lithium. And you know who has the most lithium in the world? Bolivia, lead by Hugo Chavez’s mini-me, Evo Morales.
We may have laughed at the time, but the Flintstones had it right:
