[ausev] Are EV's too one dimensional?

[John Rumsey]

Good point!!! With a steam-electric hybrid you could
actually make your own fuel and be dependent on no one
or have a variety of fuel producers to choose from and
changing fuels would be easy enough if any tried to
price gouge.
--- Donovan Becker <dbecker215 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I just replied to a message under a different
> subject about how I was living 
> up north when that great power outtage happened.
> This got me thinking are 
> EV's too dependent on one energy source? Have we
> stopped to consider the 
> potential risks of vehicles getting their energy
> from the power grid? We all 
> know how powerful the mega oil companies are; the
> money,  the corruption, 
> the physical and political power and influence, etc.
> Have we stopped to 
> consider what will happen if we transfer all this
> power to energy companies 
> that are already large and powerful. Do we really
> want one infrastructure 
> and one source of energy for our home, personal
> vehicles, and public 
> transportation. That's a lot of power and influence
> all wrapped up into one 
> package. Seriously though, how powerful could a
> company like TXU become if 
> they control so much. They would have a monopoly on
> our daily activities. 
> >From turning on the coffee pot in the morning to
> driving to work to watching 
> tv in the evening, one company would tell us how
> much we have to pay for the 
> majority of our daily activities. Do we want to
> trust these companies with 
> that much?
> 
> This is something that I haven't heard anyone
> talking about so I thought 
> that I would bring it up.
> 
> Donovan
> 
>
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