Clean energy! Windmills ! Solar Panels! Electric cars! Long-lasting rechargable batteries!
Big league Wall Street investors have already anticipated the trend....and have placed their bets! Rechargable batteries and the electric motor will REPLACE the internal combustion engine.
Waiting in the wings....with coal-fired and fossil fueled power plants ...are the profit- eager electric companies. Plugging in your Tesla, Prius, or Chevy Volt might just feel joyously painless! .....until you get your electric bill!
That electricity is not free! And, though you have endowed yourself with your own personal pair of angel wings....for saving the planet with your electric car, ...your tiny carbon-footprint will simply be replaced...by a VERY LARGE footprint, produced by your friendly electric company.
With the average consumer spending about $2000 a year on gasoline, that money will simply be shifted from the gas pump...to the electric company. And the loss in tranferable power from shifting direct combustion to battery reserve...should take that average well beyond $6000 annually. Considering the average monthly electric bill today is around $120, estimates show that this will increase to $675!! , the average mortgage payment being around $650 today, before taxes and insurance.
It's not free. And it's not clean! Combustion and greenhouses gases will be produced at record levels, and crushing demand for electric power will prompt lesser liability , oversight , and regulation of radiation filled nuclear power plants.
But it's okay. Just keep that oblivious contentful grin as your clean-green electrical mind meanders while you plug-in that Prius! Though you have not donned a pair of tights and a cape....you HAVE helped save the planet!
Or have you?
Big league Wall Street investors have already anticipated the trend....and have placed their bets! Rechargable batteries and the electric motor will REPLACE the internal combustion engine.
Waiting in the wings....with coal-fired and fossil fueled power plants ...are the profit- eager electric companies. Plugging in your Tesla, Prius, or Chevy Volt might just feel joyously painless! .....until you get your electric bill!
That electricity is not free! And, though you have endowed yourself with your own personal pair of angel wings....for saving the planet with your electric car, ...your tiny carbon-footprint will simply be replaced...by a VERY LARGE footprint, produced by your friendly electric company.
With the average consumer spending about $2000 a year on gasoline, that money will simply be shifted from the gas pump...to the electric company. And the loss in tranferable power from shifting direct combustion to battery reserve...should take that average well beyond $6000 annually. Considering the average monthly electric bill today is around $120, estimates show that this will increase to $675!! , the average mortgage payment being around $650 today, before taxes and insurance.
It's not free. And it's not clean! Combustion and greenhouses gases will be produced at record levels, and crushing demand for electric power will prompt lesser liability , oversight , and regulation of radiation filled nuclear power plants.
But it's okay. Just keep that oblivious contentful grin as your clean-green electrical mind meanders while you plug-in that Prius! Though you have not donned a pair of tights and a cape....you HAVE helped save the planet!
Or have you?
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