The US House passed last night (June/26/2009) the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, in a close [404 Check: was link to http:/ / www. google. com/ trends/ hottrends?q=cap+and+trade+vote+results&date=2009 -6 -27&sa=X, anchor: vote] . You can read H.R.2454 here. Section 121 covers the electric vehicle infrastructure.
I keep hearing the argument about how plug-in electric cars don't save anything because you still have to generate electricity at the power plant. This argument is flawed.
The major design goal of any moving vehicle is to keep its weight down. Right now each and every car out there has to carry the weight of its own pollution control system around. That takes energy in and of it self.
Putting the pollution control system at the power plant has no issues of weight so they can be far more effective. Since the electric car no longer has to consume energy to move around its own pollution system there is an over all savings of resources.
I wonder if it ever even occurred to the politicians voting on this bill, that "Global Warming" has been holding back the next ice age?
