National Petroleum Radio interviews WSJ Detroit reporter dissing electric cars

[zulchzulu]

In case you wondered why Greg Palast (www.gregpalast.com) refers to NPR as the National Petroleum Network, you can't have better proof than this morning's jaw-dropping story...jaw-dropping when you hear just about every fallacy about electric cars coming out of the mouth of Wall Street Journal's Detroit bureau chief, Joe White into the loving ears of lightweight John Ydstie, who seemed to have never heard about electric cars except for what the summer intern scribbled on a post-it for his preparation. Imagine a guy who gets paid by Rupert Murdoch in Detroit, home of our dying auto industry, talking about how bad electric cars are.... :crazy: Who woulda thunk....

Give it a listen. No transcript yet. Sorry, no soundtrack added yet either:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12768963

If you want more info on EVs, here's a start:
http://www.eaaev.org/

Better yet, check out:
http://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com/

Shame, NPR.... Contact them like I did:
http://www.npr.org/contact/

[NoFederales]

1. I have not listened to NPR broadcast (dial-up woes), but the "dissing"

is out there, it is un-scientific, it is opinionated belief, and it is unwarranted.

Fuel cells, high density batteries of alternative chemistries, hydrogen based technologies are hardly "new" ideas, and yet this science/technology struggles to be developed and marketed.

There are niche markets for converted electric vehicles (conversions from regular internal combution engines(ICE)-to-electric(EV), and have been for decades. Advances are being made with solid state electronics in motors and controllers and are being currently utilized. The reader can google any number of EV derivations and find information.

The American automotive industry seems to enjoy a dangling carrot-stick idea of alernative transportation out to the public--see, it's here guys, but wait, it won't be looooooong....

It will take intrepid entrepreneurship to launch alternative transportation successfully against the ICE/Oil-based market.

NoFederales