Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Say goodbye to your SUV's : BO just made them extinct

[LarryT (l02turner]

I think this is typical of politicians and media - trying to fix a complex 
problem with a simple answer.

Sure, a 40mpg car can be produced - one easy way is to reduce weight. 
Unfortunatelty, smaller lighter cars tend to do poorly in accidents - 
especially with larger vehicles.

Electric Hybrids look good until you consider the problems with battery 
maintanence - replacing them, disposing of them, making new ones, yada, 
yada.

Hydrogen offers a lot of promise but it'll take years to get the 
infratructure built - especially considering the difficulty much new 
construction has in getting permits for this kind of facility (in some 
areas).  Of course, that's an area where the govt *could* make life easier 
for business by making the whole  procedure easier to actually accomplish 
something.

How nice it would be to come home at night and think, "I started 
construction today." instead of "I moved some paperwork around today."
;-^

but it doesn't really matter a whole hell of a lot what we think.

larryt

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Bennett" <pbennett [at] macnet.com>
To: "Larry Turner" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Say goodbye to your SUV's : BO just made them extinct


> >There's a cost associated with the electricity too - sounds like they're
> > glossing over that little problem.
>
> Also Glossing over the BIG problem that manufacturing and disposal of 
> batteries
> creates to the environment.  There is 5x more environmental damage caused
> by the batteries than they save in fuel environmental impact.
>
> Say,...BO meant something different in my day.
>
>
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