If you are considering – or perhaps already have – an electric car, hybrid or even a hydrogen car I hate to break it to you, but you are a mug. I completely empathize with how you were conned, but the fact still remains you were conned. You were conned just like people in the 1970s who bought fuel-efficient cars during the fuel crisis. But car manufacturers are very good at this sort of thing, so you are excused – up to a point.
I’m extremely anti-hydrogen/electrical transport, and I have in draft a very long post explaining why, but in summary I think that working towards a hydrogen economy is a greater threat to the world than WMDs. I say this first as an ex automotive engineer who spent most of his career – before turning to the web – making fuel economy/emissions improvements to a variety of products and second as someone who’s experienced first-hand what sustainable can mean in the West.
My post, if/when I finally release it, will contain a lot of data and technical reasons why I think these eco-transport proposals are EPIC FAIL, but in the meantime I want to entertain you with an analogy.
Imagine you are climbing a ladder up the side of a 50 storey building. You are half way up when, all of a sudden, the ladder breaks away from the top and starts to fall. Do you 1) keep climbing the ladder OR 2) jump onto the nearby balcony?
If you chose 2 then you are a logical person because whilst the fall to the balcony may break your ankles you will survive. If you chose 1, you are illogical; climbing further up the ladder is not only a waste of time and energy, but it’s only going to increase the distance you fall.
