Best to cut emissions with a variety of powertrains
Summary
The lawn’s been turned into prickly cacti and jagged rocks and your mother’s beloved flat iron has been banned but the electric trucks are running in Long Beach. But in a tortuous paradox of sorts the cure for climate change advocated by influential alt fuel proponents is to eliminate internal combustion and roll out more all-electric vehicles. (Geez…I smell a Chinatown redux a la electric truck proponents versus the flat iron society, Xbox warriors or other such groups that desperately need the grid up and running. Tom QuimbyI first became aware of the great green disparity about six years ago at ACT Expo when natural gas advocates made it known how upset they were with funding in California being mostly marked for all-electrics. While I’m not so sure where Musk stands on hydrogen engines, he’s made it repeatedly clear what he thinks of fuel cells with memorable descriptions like “mind boggingly stupid” and “extremely silly.” Of course, that was a few years before the lithium hit the fan.