You mean a ZERO emission electric car?

AUSTRALIA could become a world leader in the design and production of zero-emission electric cars within the next decade, a Government report said. The Federal Government has joined with the Victorian Government to predict trends in the local car industry leading up to 2020. Well, yes, yes indeed. We all know how good governments are at predicting things But even if they are right, this story is of course completely misleading bullshit. These cars will not be zero emitters of carbon dioxide. What's going to produce the friggen electricity that is going to charge them? The power needed to manufacture them in the first place and then maintain them throughout their life cycle? So all that is happening is that the emissions associated with these hypothetical cars will be produced elsewhere. Oh, and by what? If not nuclear power, then by the burning of coal or gas. Don't kid yourself petal, it 'aint going to be done by useless wind or solar power. You can't run a manufacturing business on a power source that you can't rely on, and you cannot rely on power that isn't there because the sun has gone down or it's gotten cloudy or the wind has stopped blowing. That's why the Water Corporation here in Western Australia had to withdraw ads deemed to be false and misleading when they said that its desalination plant was run by renewable energy. It was always a lie. Nothing important can be run by renewable energy.

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