Comments on: Gore Calls for Electric Vehicle Future

By: Bryce

Bryce — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:43:02 +0000

30% of oil comes from state side. Trillion dollar deficits are a new thing special and unique only to this recession. Still, even though all of those things you said were innacurate and largely exagerations…..I do hope the electrification of the car continues.

By: Kevin Dunbar

Kevin Dunbar — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:21:55 +0000

Before this recession hit there were parts of the U.S. that were turning into ghost towns. Unemplyment was on the rise and you already had trillion dollar deficits. You produce something like 10% of your oil needs. Drilling in Alaska will only offset a small percent of that. Where are you going now? Clean electric could be your savior. Start building windmills, and yes, nuclear. Amercian made windmills that will employ the masses. And build electric cars. Gore is right. I hope we listen to him.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:32:04 +0000

That greed, my friend, is what makes the world turn round. : )

By: RKRB

RKRB — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:42:19 +0000

It’s not just the Iraq war, amigo. We spend more to essentially subsidize illegal immigration than on the war in Iraq, we spend far more than that on useless and rapidly obsolescent trinkets that soon wind up in a landfill, and we spend more than the Iraq war on junk food and soda that kills as many of us as the war has. Neither candidate seems to have much promise of actually doing something about changing this greed into something positive and useful. Unless we do something like put a heavy tax on carbon use, which would be political suicide, we are looking forward to more of the same. It’s pretty depressing and wishful thinking isn’t going to help much.

By: uktiger

uktiger — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:50:21 +0000

The oil companies pay losers to go to internets sites and post crap at 10 cents a word. Have fun boys, enjoy your dimes.

Al Gore has done nothing but good for this country, nobody with a brain would call him "crazy" or an "idiot". Go play some more video games halo, I think your mom wants you to cut the grass.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:55:44 +0000

Mining and burning coal is catastrophic for the environment, not to mention dangerous for miners. I guess “all us liberals” prefer breathing clean air.

By: Allen

Allen — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:13:48 +0000

@Sri
Thanks for the link.
That's what I get using shoddy, knee-jerk numbers. I didn't calculate for barrel-gallon and daily figures. I recalculated and found (according to the DOE site you provided) that it shows "Finished Motor Gasoline" as having usage about 142 Billion gallons/year.
The strange part to me is that it also shows that "Kerosene-type Jet Fuel" as only using 24 Billion gallons/year, and "Distillate Fuel Oil" (Diesels and the like) as using 64 Billion gallons/year.
With about 28,000 (major commercial) flights a day (only counting major airlines like Southwest, United, American, and so forth) and burning an average of 40-60 gallons a minute (and twice that for take-off) I would have thought there would be a lot more used. Especially considering that that doesn't include all the tourist, private and courier flights.
I also would have guessed that a lot more Diesel would have been used considering that most large trucks get 8 MPG (or less) and that is what is moving most of our goods.
I still hold to my main point, though, about needing to consider the usage in the infrastructure. As the (DOE) numbers show, we are using almost as much in commercial usage as personal. If the current infrastructure is not being used as much, there will not be as much of it and the cargo vehicles (not feasible for electric) will pay the price, increasing the costs of our goods. Also, the fuel prices for planes are already hitting us and cutting back the infrastructure for that will only worsen it. I agree that we need an alternative, but trains are only efficient if tracks are near the location, and biofuels are (IMHO) only a stop-gap measure. I have been waiting for electric motors and batteries to get affordable for 20 years. While (compared to cost-of-living) they are getting better, they are moving at a snails pace and it would still cost me $15k to go electric and I still have to keep a gasoline car for trips. I'm getting an e-bike for commuting, but I still need the car for when it rains.
Thanks again for keeping the facts straight.

By: chukcha

chukcha — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:43:42 +0000

geber22,
Amen!

By: jerry

jerry — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:16:45 +0000

Speaking at the event, General Motors' Keith Cole, director of legislative and regulatory affairs, said, "We can't afford to run a business in that kind of scatterbrained approach."

can they afford to run it the way they have been runnign it.

By: Mr. ?

Mr. ? — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:10:14 +0000

Who is Al Gore?? And what does he have to do with anything?? Is he a President or a government representative or something?? That picture makes him look very self-absorbed…