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Termoil on November 11, 2008 - 3:13am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Well I just scanned it and I think Cliffs analysis is a reasonable as say ... Kunstlers or Heinbergs. I don't know that anyones predictions can be claimed to be the only possible version of the future and your constant assertions about electric cars is probably less likely than Cliffs conclusions about massive economic and social disruption. Current events would tend to point more toward the doomer position than "magical green all electric utopia" you believe is coming.

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DaveMart on November 11, 2008 - 6:47am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I don't believe I have ever said that electric cars will certainly rescue us all, as you seem to be saying.
When the subject crops up I refer to the4 present state of play and how much power they use, I do not prescribe how much of present use they will be able to provide, as that also depends on other factors such as economics.
My objection is not to the thesis that the grid may break down, but to the assertion of it's inevitability poorly supported by analysis.

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