[Newsbot]

Title: Ontario readies for electric cars
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Ripcat
Date: 2009-01-15 05:33:16
Canadian

[uwish]

While this is a nice warm fuzzy feeling, electric cars are not the answer. Not until we have a more green power generating options. All this does is convert one form of pollution to another.

[Streaker]

It's easier to control emissions from a handful of power generation facilities than it is to do so from a few million cars, so, as is all-too-often the case, u're wrong.

[uwish]

riiiighhhhtttt

[Wally_Sconce]

my electric bike costs me less than 12 cents per recharge. Before all this damn snow came, it was saving me about $100 per week on fuel.

[Wally_Sconce]

I have the option of buying all my electricity from wind mills. That way, instead of polluting, I can contribute to the death of birds and bats.

[LightStarr]

Aging_Redneck Aging_Redneck:

I have the option of buying all my electricity from wind mills. That way, instead of polluting, I can contribute to the death of birds and bats.

Good. I hate those things. Especially birds. Tweet Tweet Mo' Fucka.

[ziggy]

Aging_Redneck Aging_Redneck:

I have the option of buying all my electricity from wind mills. That way, instead of polluting, I can contribute to the death of birds and bats.

That's a myth,Cats are #1 and cars are #2 killer of birds,not windmills.
They barely rate.

[Wally_Sconce]

electric bikes are greener than pedal bikes, because the electricity produced by wind has a smaller footprint than the production and transport of food that your body consumes to pedal the bike.

[Wally_Sconce]

All of you bicyclers out there need to wake up and smell the coffee. You are no longer the greenest of the green!

[SigPig]

Aging_Redneck Aging_Redneck:

I have the option of buying all my electricity from wind mills. That way, instead of polluting, I can contribute to the death of birds and bats.

While some birds and bats may be killed by wind tubines I think we need to look at the lesser of two evils here. Unless you are able to show that it is indeed wiping out huge quantities of these animals then we should invest more in wind power.

Because the other option is polluting the air that those same birds and bats (and humans breath with coal plants.

[Wally_Sconce]

ziggy ziggy:

Aging_Redneck Aging_Redneck:

I have the option of buying all my electricity from wind mills. That way, instead of polluting, I can contribute to the death of birds and bats.

That's a myth,Cats are #1 and cars are #2 killer of birds,not windmills.
They barely rate.

and cars kill cats, so we actually have a miniature ecosystem

[ziggy]

SigPig SigPig:

Aging_Redneck Aging_Redneck:

I have the option of buying all my electricity from wind mills. That way, instead of polluting, I can contribute to the death of birds and bats.

While some birds and bats may be killed by wind tubines I think we need to look at the lesser of two evils here. Unless you are able to show that it is indeed wiping out huge quantities of these animals then we should invest more in wind power.

Because the other option is polluting the air that those same birds and bats (and humans breath with coal plants.

The old turbines used to kill birds because they would nest on the generators,all the new ones have smooth edges so the birds cant build on them.
Usually it was birds of prey like falcons,hawks and eagles that would nest on them because theres not many trees on the praries.I live next to one of Canada's biggest wind farms.They cant plant them fast enough.

[mtbr]

Aging_Redneck Aging_Redneck:

electric bikes are greener than pedal bikes, because the electricity produced by wind has a smaller footprint than the production and transport of food that your body consumes to pedal the bike.

where did you get that from?

everybody pedals at different rates and have different metabolism. Some people could use as much energy pedaling 10 miles while someone else could use the same amount and pedals a 100 miles .

[Ember80]