Electric Vehicles & Electricity

Electric Vehicles & Electricity.
I just did a little research on electric vehicles. Government motors was a little late getting into the game.
Early 1900’s.
Columbia Runabout had a car (Volt not there name, mine) that could travel 40 miles on a single charge. Looks like government motors was about 111 years late to reinvent that car. Of course that was before batteries & electronics were not as sophisticated as they are today.
The 1914 Detroit Electric Car could go 80 miles on a single charge. Clara Ford (Henry’s wife) drove one; it was her favorite car, poor Henry.
The American Morrison electric car could go 182 miles on a single charge, before lithium ion batteries.
There was an electric car built (The Baker Torpedo) it was clocked at 120mph in 1902.
What does the Tesla (car) not to be confused with the roadster at over $150,000, have over the Baker except a $57,000 base price tag? Of course the Tesla has a 160 mile range. In June 2009 Tesla was approved to receive $465 million in interest-bearing loans from The United States Taxpayers Department of Energy (sound familiar GM, Chrysler). In June 2010, it was reported that Tesla sold a total of $12.2 million zero emission vehicle credits to other automakers, including Honda, up to March 31, 2010; can Gore (Al) be very far behind?
Not to be forgotten is the Wood’s Phaeton a hybrid car. For the uninformed both electric & internal combustion engine (Volt & Prius).
At one time in 1899 ninety percent of the taxies in New York were electric, they were built by Electric Carriage and Wagon Company of Philadelphia and now they are trying to bring electric taxies back to New York!!!! Three cheers for Bloomberg keep trying it until you make it work.
Doesn’t any one Read or Understand History anymore? Why do the car companies (government motors) think that the American People will pay $43,000.00 for a vehicle that was invented in the late 1800’s early 1900’s?
My next question is: What is going to power 1 million electric cars that obama says will be on the road soon. With all the improvements in lithium ion batteries and the vastly improved electronic controls, you still need electricity to charge the batteries.
Unless you are a complete moron you know that electricity has to be produced. The electricity that powers The United States comes from coal, oil, natural gas and some nuclear, but coal is the greatest producer of electricity. During the campaign obama and biden said they would kill coal. They said that they would make it so expensive that the coal producers and the coal fired power plants could not afford to produce electricity. That leaves oil, natural gas; if you remember after the oil spill in the Gulf obama suspended all oil exploration in the Gulf even after a federal judge said it was unconstitutional, laws doesn’t matter to this man. The obama administration has stopped all oil & natural gas leases in places where there is oil & natural gases.
There hasn’t been a new refinery built in the last 30 years because of the EPA. There hasn’t been a nuclear plant built in 25 years. The obama administration says the United States will get its power from green energy. Where is this green energy coming from, corn? For every gal of ethanol produced from corn it takes $4.00 of energy and a great deal of water to produce it. When that corn is used for ethanol it is lost as a food source. Brazil has been producing ethanol from sugar cane for years. The obama administration just gave $80 billion to Brazil for future off shore oil production, wonder why sugar cane can’t produce enough power for their needs. Brazil has been producing ethanol a lot longer than the United States and they now need oil, coincidence I don’t think so.
So the great minds in Congress and the White House said lets get the power from wind, sun, algae and ethanol. I would remind you the American people that 90% of the great educated minds (lawyers) in Congress have never had a job outside government or academia. If the Congress great minds had ever taken any science courses instead of liberal arts classes (easy courses to graduate) they would understand that you cannot produce enough power from wind, sun & algae to power this Great Nation not to mention the extra 1 million electric cars obama motors has promised at $43,000 each with the taxpayers picking up $7,000.00 of the price.
So I get back to my original point Heaven help us when all the vehicles on the road, in the air and on the oceans are electric. “May The Wind Blow Strong and the Sun Shine Bright & the Algae Reproduce”!!!!!
I would hope the American People will look at the education of the next round of people seeking to become, representatives, congressmen, supreme court justices & president of this Great Nation. Maybe a few of the next elected officials would have some Science Sense, Common Sense as well as “Book Learning”
James C. Davis
Byron