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Topics => Weather, Climate, & Natural Disasters => Topic started by: trapeze on July 20, 2011, 07:49:00 PM

Title: Funny New Report On Electric Cars
Post by: trapeze on July 20, 2011, 07:49:00 PM

LINK (http://junkscience.com/2011/07/20/epri-inadvertently-debunks-electric-vehicles/)

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A new report from the Electric Power Research Institute exposes EVs as pointless even under the rosiest scenario.

First, assuming that 65 million EVs are sold by 2030, EPRI estimates that gasoline savings would amount to 7 billion gallons annually. But in 2010, Americans burned 378 million gallons of gas per day. So the 2030 EV gasoline savings amount to a mere 5 percent of 2010 usage. Giving growing world demand for gasoline, a growing US population and (hopefully) a growing US economy, this projected “savings” would likely be meaningless.

Cue Nelson Muntz.

Oh, and read the comments following the article.

Title: Re: Funny New Report On Electric Cars
Post by: Libertas on July 21, 2011, 06:55:25 AM

"You just don’t get it. The greenies all think the power comes out of the wall (outlet)! Like magic- easy peasy lemon squeezy!"

 ::rolllaughing::