For what it is worth, 91Caprice9c1, I agree completely with you!
Electric cars are the answer - it is just that recharging them with normal household 110 or 220 volts
is a lie - you are burning COAL to run the car - with tremendously bad efficiency added on!
Where I live, about 33% of the time we have strong winds that each house
could use to recharge a car's batteries.
A small car - like a '93 Metro - not some 3,000 pound four door, trailer hauling SUV
type of vehicle.
But the Wind Mills would be considered "Ugly" and would disturb the Willow Tit's
and Hedge Sparrow's Spring Mating activities...
We could have Nuclear Powered Electricity - clean and pure - if we could build
the power plants w/o endless expensive and constipating Red Tape.
Battery advances and Solar Cell advances would be there if we threw money
at the Scientists like we do for finding new weapons of war....
Everything, but everything is "political" these days. Nothing is immune.
If by some chance it wasn't 'political", the media would make sure it became political.
So we have to talk about these things and get pissed when nothing is done.
If you don't "get political", nothing is done.
Even for a Geo Metro - the squeaky wheel gets oiled.
DoctorBill