lee wrote on Sep 10
th, 2017 at 8:31pm:
John Smith wrote on Sep 10
th, 2017 at 8:10pm:
good work Lee
great way to avoid the point and reality at the same time
So emissions are not the point? Moving to electric vehicles will be like peeing on a bushfire. Might make you feel good and noble. Won't achieve a thing.
And guess what? China's emissions are reality.
Of course it's about emissions and fossil fool vehicles have it in spades

You don't honestly think the petrol or deisel magically appears at the fool bowser do you ??
First you have to expend energy locating the oil well. Then once you have found it you have to expend energy extracting crude from the ground. Then you have to transport or pipe it to the refinery which requires energy. Then you have to refine it which also consumes energy ! Then once you have refined it you have to expend energy transporting it to the shipping dock. Then you have to ship it over the ocean using the most inefficient and carbon intensive means of transport ie shipping ! Then you have to transport it to the refinery for further refining to petrol or deisel etc and then you have to transport it to all of the fool bowsers over the country. Again each step producing carbon emissions in spades

Now compare with electric vehicles charged up from coal fired power where the coal source is right next to the power station !! Once the energy is created virtually none is wasted transporting it over the grid to its destination whether that is a home or charging station.
And then there is the inefficiencies of the fossil fool piston engine vs the highly efficient design of a synchronous AC motor ! Come back to us when you have done all of the calculations and then tell us how the transition to electrification of the transport network is not going to make any difference in greenhouse gas emissions

And of course once you clean up the grid and replace the polluting sources with renewables then of course the net emissons from the use of electric cars will decrease proportionately. Can't say the same about polluting fossil fool cars which will make no difference whether or not you clean up the grid