Electruc Cars Now?

I previously issued an e-mail, blog and Twitter concerning GM's electric car, known as the Volt. In those documents, I included information from a friend, which was said to be based on communications from a Stanford U. engineering person, and considerable detail from a Fox Business News analyst named Eric Bolling.

    I then received, from a close associate, a vigorous denunciation of having used incorrect data in the original communications. Here is my reply to my associate:

    

"I'm sorry. My only excuse was that the "inaccuracies" were not obvious enough to me that they required my independent research. 

From your point of view, I was duped by a friend, an engineering person at Stanford, Fox Business News, and an analyst named Eric Bolling. You may be correct in that assumption. 

However, you and I start from different perspectives. I believe you take the same position as the Obama Administration, which is that there is a finite quantity of petroleum in the world. Therefore, we should now be working hard on developing alternative sources of energy, which are most obviously wind and solar.

While I do not disagree with the finite nature of petroleum availability, I take the attitude that we do not know how much is available nor how long it will last. I also believe it is unwise to restrict its public use by denying availability through government edict, such as denying drilling permits on "government" land, which should not be government owned in the first place, and imposing various restrictions on its production, refining, and use. 

The second violation of logic is promoting electric cars now, when the above paragraph opines that it is not necessary. The extenuating damage is the expenditure for actual building and promotion of electric cars and ancillaries by huge taxpayer subsidies and loan guarantees at a time when total government expenditures versus income places our government on a road to bankruptcy.

We are human and always slant things in a manner favorable to our preconceived opinions. You like electric cars and don't want to hear anything negative about them. I also like electric cars, but within the limitations of appropriate economic, time, and petroleum resource life cycles."