>>>If everyone had an electric car, the unimaginable would happen: the big oil would lose its power, and we can't allow that, comrades, can we?
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>>I just don't get this electric car business. Surely one of the problems of global warming is the polution caused by electricity production; that's why there's popular pressure to build wind and wave farms, solar panels, roof windmills, etc. So if elec is used to power the cars, presumably they're plugged in in the garage overnight, or whatever. Where does this magic elec come from? Surely that's just shoving the polution from the roads to the air around the elec generating stations, increasing their output.
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>For fully electric, I suppose that's true. My son drives a hybrid which doesn't have a plug. It converts some of the heat that's normally lost to braking into electricity, which then helps power the car. Very neat idea and he's getting around 40 miles per gallon.
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>Tamar

Sounds good. I suppose though you have to brake a lot to build up potential, thus needing to replace the brakes more often, with the power it requires to make new brakes. Ain't no such thing as a free lunch :-)