Contributing Articles on Clean Energy
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EV’S UPHILL BATTLE
EVs have had a place in our economy for years, despite the battery issues, only the Radcons who control the auto and oil oligopolies are just now beginning to figure out how to profit from EVs. Just think, if you as a “one-bottom-line for-profit only” company were to consider the real problem, you would fight EVs as long as you could.
The real problem is obsolescence of assets and technology dedicated to the infernal combustion engine. The auto and oil industries have trillions of dollars invested in thermal engines and they don’t want to “waste” those assets by taking them out of production or selling them for developing countries to use.
Also, the time-money-consumer acceptance issues slow all progress. As an example, the Ricardo engine, still under development, runs on any liquid fuel from kerosene, gas, diesel to cooking oil.
We have millions of pumps to accommodate gas and diesel. Propane, which is much cleaner burning, is usually only found in government and utility vehicles. Only a small percentage of consumers are “early-adopters” willing to spend the extra money for an EV — a typical example of the auto industry “creaming the market” before lowering the price for us masses.
So that explains the extreme resistance of auto/oil oligopolies to improve our air, water and land and to prevent the huge environmental costs from negatively impacting their one-and-only bottom line.
Jim Miller
jimmiller5417@gmail.com
10/4/11