<VV> GM Celebrates 100 years - Stock market rises 160 points - Itsybitsy Vair

[Alan and Clare Wesson]

If you go to 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sources_of_electricity_in_the_USA_2006.png

you will see that 70.5% of US electricity is generated from fossil fuels 
(natural gas, oil and coal).

As an aside the same figure for France is 9.5%:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sources_of_Electricity_in_France_in_2006.PNG

This is an incredible difference and stems from the fact that, when 
environmentalists used to protest about nuclear energy in the 60s, the 
French government had the presence of mind to tell them where to get off, 
and to build its nuclear power plants anyway. Three Mile Island put paid to 
that in the USA.

Given the above and the power losses inherent in electric cars compared with 
IC powered ones, how exactly is the Chevy Volt an improvement in 
CO2-generation terms over a Seat Arosa diesel or a VW Lupo diesel (both now 
sadly discontinued)...

http://www.seatforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=57733

...unless you live in France, in which case an Electrovair would be a better 
solution anyway because the car exists already and so you could avoid the 
large percentage of a car's lifetime ('wheel-to-well') carbon footprint that 
arises from the manufacturing process.

Cheers

Alan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Sethracer at aol.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:34 AM
Subject: <VV> GM Celebrates 100 years - Stock market rises 160 points - 
Itsybitsy Vair


> Well, okay. On last Tuesday, when GM held it's 100 year anniversary and
> introduced the new (as in not yet available) Chevy Volt, the stock market 
> did
> rise 160 points. Of course, the day before it had dropped 400 and the day 
> after
> dropped 300+ more and then rebounded by Friday to almost where it had 
> started
> -  them dropped again today - But ON THAT DAY - it went up. If you cared 
> about
> the  Volt, (Chevy had been nice enough to use a Corvair/Greenbrier in the
> Olympics  (tm) ad), there is a bunch of good info in the interviews by Lou 
> Ann
> Hammond - Both Bob Lutz and Rick Wagoner sound reasonable in their 
> "Pitches".
> if  you are a car person, you need to stay informed. Check it out at:
>
> _http://www.carlist.com/blog/index.php_
> (http://www.carlist.com/blog/index.php)  (mailto:carlist.com at yahoo.com)
>
> - Seth Emerson
>
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