On Feb 24, 10:02*pm, Tim Wescott wrote:
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 06:17:30 -0800, bob haller wrote:
the big advantage of electric vehicles is that they save gasoline making
us less dependent on a finite resource.

And what infinite well of energy does electrical power come from? *Just
because it always comes out of the wall when you plug into it doesn't
mean that there isn't some generating station out there burning
_something_ to deliver the bulk of it to you.

Electric cars use around half/one third the energy needed for
conventional cars. That energy is much cheaper too.
It could come from nuclear power or renewable.