Why does ABC News hate electric cars?

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BY CHRISTOPHER MIMS
28 OCT 2011 11:04 AM

Elon Musk, billionaire founder of Skype, wants to revolutionize the landscape of American cars with his Tesla Motors Model S sedan. He's already got a contract with Toyota, and he's been lauded by every outlet that knows what the hell it's talking about. So why does ABC News want to smear Tesla as the next Solyndra?

"The cringe-worthy fail in the intro, which sets the segment’s tone and frames the subsequent reporting," writes Mike Orcutt in The New Fuelist.

Host Terry Morgan leads with this:

Two and a half years ago President Obama pushed a $787 billion stimulus bill through Congress that he said would create millions of jobs, but now the president’s under attack by critics who say that stimulus hasn’t created a significant number of jobs and costs too much. Tonight ABC’s Brian Ross looks at two companies that received a billion in government loans and asks, what did they do with it?

Except, oops, those loans weren't part of the stimulus package.

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'liberal' media my ass...

[tabasco]

1. I hate stupid-ass plug-in cars too.

Do people think the electricity comes from electric fairies in lala land?

[kestrel91316]

2. The electricity CAN come from solar panels on a homeowner's roof, or

a wind generator. YMMV.

[kestrel91316]

3. I hate stupid ass oil company shills, don't you?

[tabasco]

8. Yeah, no electricity is produced from burning oil.

Good point. :dunce:

[Firebrand Gary]

4. FAIL...Electric cars are the equivalent of iphone with wheels.

Don't knock it until you try it. We are purchasing an EV (electric vehicle) in February. Very excited to give a great big fuck you to the oil companies.

[rgbecker]

5. I think the electricity comes by numerous ways, all more efficiently than ...

burning gas in your mobilized piston pumping heat machine. Some of the electricity, as pointed out above, comes from waving propellers in the wind, aiming silicone at the sun and catching water falling down a hill. Other electricity is produced by burning coal or oil or natural gas, all the while obtaining many more Horsepower per pound than burning gas in an internal combustion engine. Then of course there is the nuclear power from lala land.

[Motown_Johnny]

6. You clearly have NO FREAKING IDEA what the F..K you are talking about

Electric vehicles are so much more efficient that even if all the electricity was generated from coal it would still benefit our environment



do some freaking research, will ya?


here, I will do a little for you



http://www.gizmag.com/empa-study-environmental-impact-electric-car/16181/

^snip^

The EMPA team concluded that a petrol-engined car must consume between three and four liters per 100km (or about 70mpg) in order to be as environmentally friendly as the electric car studied, powered with Li-ion batteries and charged with a typical European electricity mix.




show me a car that gets 70mpg and we can talk

[tabasco]

7. "even if all the electricity was generated from coal"

Most of the electricity IS generated from coal.

I live in West Virginia. You live in lala land.

[Motown_Johnny]

9. a quick search on the Google says it is only ~46% in Virgiinia

I think it is very clear that 46% is not "Most".

Therefore your statement is wrong.

It is also reasonable to assume, based on these facts, that you are the one who lives in lala land.




2005 numbers at this link:
http://www.dmme.virginia.gov/DMR3/energyresources.shtml


2010 numbers here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Resources

^snip^

46 percent of Dominion's total electric production comes from coal, 41 percent comes from nuclear power, 9 percent comes from natural gas, 1 percent comes from oil, and the remaining 3 percent comes from Hydro and other renewables




Electric cars are good for the environment. Deal with it.





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