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To: RetiredNow who wrote (11181)	7/13/2009 12:56:59 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

Re - premise 1: Its not poppycock that half our electricity now comes from coal. any engineer will tell you that if you want to make progress on the whole process, then you shouldn't wait until you fixed an upstream process to fix the downstream process. Fixing the downstream process is still incremental progress. I don't think that really addresses the point that to the extent our electricity is generated by coal, shifting transportation from oil to electricity is simply shifting from oil to coal as the ultimate power source. A better argument for you to make might be that we're self-sufficient in coal unlike oil and it provides a lot of domestic jobs. Re. premise 2: Its easy to speculate that lithium might well be replaced by something unforeseen in the future, but people are urging us to shift to lithium batteries NOW and for the near future, before whatever speculative alternative to lithium you're urging us to bet on is even identified, much less commercially developed. If you're going to claim we shouldn't worry about lithium cause something is guaranteed to replace lithium, is it too much to ask you to identify the substance that will replace lithium?