I really despise the cretinous liars who produced the Nissan Leaf commercial featuring zero after zero after zero to end up saying “zero pollutants for the environment”. Liars. Electric cars do NOT produce zero emissions, zero pollutants (heck, just in their production alone they contribute to massive amounts of toxic waste*). Oh, at the “tailpipe” they don’t have, sure: zero emissions. But unless they’re powered via solar, wind, hydro or nuclear, they’re not “zero emission” cars. Heck, the lowest cost electricity plants in the US (at least until The Zero gets his way) are coal-fired generators, and that’s a Good Thing (at least until The Zero gets his way), because those coal-fired generators producing cheap(er) electricity also produce about half our electricity (and the US has enough coal reserves to continue doing that for at least a couple hundred years–at least if The Zero doesn’t get his way).
The “zero pollutants for the environment” claim made by the recent Leaf commercial is a patent and obvious lie, easily seen as such by anyone with more active brain cells than a head of cabbage… which excludes all the target audience for the lying commercial: greenie-propagandized subliterate, hypermoronic, self-lobotomized metrosexual grups and their (similarly greenie-propagandized subliterate, hypermoronic, self-lobotomized) hyper-sexualized but distinctly unattractive harpy fems.
Yep. I bet the Leaf sells just fine to that demographic.
*Yeh, I know the article at the link is specifically about wind turbines and neodymium, but don’t think the same material isn’t used in the Leaf’s motor, because it is, and the Leaf’s batteries’ components have the same sort of problematic origins. Just saying.
You were not supposed to question information that came directly from the Oracle. You will be cast into outer darkness and your name stricken from the list of true believers.
Don’t you mean “The Goracle, TF? *heh*
The loons are all for location-specific pollutants because they live or soon hope to live in a part of town so far from the energy plants where only the poor folk live. Were electric vehicles to have been invented first and the technology for gasoline engines just discovered, the switch to gas (and diesel) would make the space race seem like a walk in the park.