I came across another "plug-ins burn coal" article that touted the benefits of bio-fuels. The obvious answer is to burn the bio-fuels in the power plants instead of coal . . . pointing out the obvious. But I realized that today's new, hybrid skeptics, are playing the same pattern as earlier hybrid skeptics.
Past skeptics have attacked hybrids on fuel economy, vehicle life, mythical life-cycle cost and angst. They all depended upon folks not checking the facts and data and as these have become available, their nonsense has faded to urban legend. The latest "silent cars kill blind people" and "PEVH vs coal plants" are following the same pattern. So the best answers are simple facts:
- More pedestrians were killed in 1998 before hybrids than in 2006
- Burn bio-fuels instead of coal in the power plants
Facts and data are hard to argue against but they have to be presented to have an effect.
Bob Wilson