I got this e mail from a friend and cannot verify it but….whether this is true I do not know but it reflects a mindset, at this point an electric car makes no sense, the energy is produced by carbon fuel to re charge the battery anyway, the battery weighs too much, it takes too long to re charge unlike gasoline, there are no re charging stations, the environmental damage from making and disposing of all those batteries is horrendous, this reflects the idea that if it does not make noise it must be Okay, you can't see the pollution since it came thru the wire to re charge the car. Electric cars also reflect a big city east coast mindset where five miles is a huge distance, try driving from here to San angelo in an electric car…….
Monday morning I attended a breakfast meeting where the speaker/guest
was David E. Cole, Chairman Center for Automotive Research (CAR). You have all likely heard CAR quoted, or referred to in the auto industry
news lately.
Mr. Cole, who is an engineer by training, told many stories of the
difficulty of working with the folks that the Obama administration has
sent to save the auto industry. There have been many meetings where a
30+ year experience automotive expert has to listen to a newcomer to the
industry, someone with zero manufacturing experience, zero auto industry
experience, zero business experience, zero finance experience, and zero
engineering experience, tell them how to run their business.
My favorite story is as follows:
There was a team of Obama people speaking to Mr. Cole (Engineer,
automotive experience 40+ years, Chairman of CAR). They were explaining
to Mr. Cole that the auto companies needed to make a car that was
electric and liquid natural gas (LNG) with enough combined fuel to go
500 miles so we wouldn't "need" so many gas stations (A whole other
topic). They were quoting BTU's of LNG and battery life that they had
looked up on some website.
Mr. Cole explained that to do this you would need a trunk FULL of
batteries and a LNG tank as big as a car to make that happen and that
there were problems related to the laws of physics that prevented them
from…
The Obama person interrupted and said (and I am quoting here) "These
laws of physics? Who's rules are those, we need to change that. (Some of
the others wrote down the law name so they could look it up) We have the
congress and the administration. We can repeal that law, amend it, or
use an executive order to get rid of that problem. That's why we are
here, to fix these sort of issues".
Professor Elam 
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