Ford Accelerates Green Cars for Bailout

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Solar and wind energy can only be put on the electrical grid. Very little can be used in automotive, which is the greatest user of energy . Too much solar and wind energy is planned for the electrical grid to hold and electrical energy will be dicarded and the suppliers will go broke.

William of ID 5:44PM December 03, 2008

On how the electricity is produced.
Currently, most electricity is produced by burning coal.

HillbillyBill of TN 7:27AM December 03, 2008

Absolutely! The world's biggest solar-powered electrical plant will come on line here in Arizona in 2011 (Google "Solana Arizona Solar Power Plant).
This plant will supply 70,000 homes with electricity and creat 2,000 jobs.
Now, imagine plugging in your electric car into your home outlet knowing that that power came from the sun!
We are fighting the oil interests, who are in bed with the big 3 auto makers. Every single time Congress tried to pass legislation to mandate higher fuel effeciency standards the big 3 auto makers sued, and won.
Now, they come looking for a handout...
Will they turn their backs on Big Oil and save their own butts? Will they actually create, once and for all, the plug-in hybrid they already know how to build?
Will Big Oil once again kill this agenda?
Thoughts?

jim of AZ 8:18PM December 02, 2008

Plug in cars would cost the equivalent of 60 cents per gallon to drive at the current average electric rates. The electricity to charge them could conceive ably come from solar or wind.We spent 168 billion on the last stimulus pkg that did nada for our economy. Why not invest in getting some alternative energy projects set up and running. It would create cheap clean energy and create new badly needed jobs. This past year the high cost of gas seriously damaged our economy and society. While we are doing the Happy Dance around the lower pierces at the pump OPEC is planning strategy to raise the price per barrel back up to between 75-100. per barrel.We really need to get on with alternative energy. Bail us out of our dependence on foreign oil and the control it has over our economy and society. There is a great new book out called The Manhattan Project of 2009 Energy Independence NOW by Jeff Wilson. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is worried about our economy and would like to see our country become energy independent. www.themanhattanprojectof2009.com

Sherry of FL 2:56PM December 02, 2008