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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (333783)4/18/2007 7:36:19 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1574542
 
No it's not. It's much cheaper.

For the majority of energy uses, quite the opposite. If your specifically referring to electrical cars then it can be much cheaper (but maybe not if your going to try to power everything through windmills and solar power).


I don't care if you are skeptical.

Well my skepticism isn't really the issue, but a vast shift to nuclear power in a decade just isn't going to happen.

You give the sum of the subsidies that oil receives to the alternative energy/electric auto technology and you would see a dramatic change.

Perhaps, but you would be giving a huge sum to a much smaller source of energy. In other words you would be subsidizing each bit of energy to a much greater extent.

Also if you give the net subsidy oil receives to alternatives sources, rather then the gross subsidy, you would be cutting subsidies and probably imposing a net additional cost on those energy sources.

Think about when Eisenhower decided to build the Interstate system.

So one possible beneficial government infrastructure program means any infrastructure spending or subsidy from a government for the rest of time is a good idea?

The Interstate highway system is irrelevant to this discussion. If it was the best government decision ever or the worst it doesn't say anything about plans to use much less or no oil.
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