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Environment & Energy

NickB79

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9. Sacrificing the environment for more jobs, are we?

Reply to quadrature (Reply #5)

Sun Jun 16, 2013, 10:04 PM

Jun 2013

Oh my, oh my.

You can't expect to keep our car-centered culture and adequately address our numerous environmental issues at the same time, even if we replaced all IC-cars with electrics.

The future lies in mass transit out of sheer necessity, Detroit be damned.

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DOE: electric vehicles 1/3 cheaper to drive, 17% lower lifetime costs [View all] wtmusic Jun 2013 OP

Does that include the costs of renting a gas power car when the leaf can't take you all the way to itsrobert Jun 2013 #1

My kids will tell you a car's no good for getting to grandma and grandpa's house. hunter Jun 2013 #2

do you have some beef with the autoworkers? .nt quadrature Jun 2013 #3

I have a beef with automobiles. hunter Jun 2013 #4

there isn't enough work quadrature Jun 2013 #5

Plenty of workers, not enough work? How can that be? hunter Jun 2013 #8

Sacrificing the environment for more jobs, are we? NickB79 Jun 2013 #9

if people don't have jobs ... quadrature Jun 2013 #10

Al has become the poster child for hypocrisy on the left wtmusic Jun 2013 #12

So flying is better on the environment than driving itsrobert Jun 2013 #6

Flying uses fossil fuels. hunter Jun 2013 #7

In a single car household, in most cases, an IC car still makes the most sense. wtmusic Jun 2013 #11