Re: (HBEnet) Why Switch to Zero Emission Vehicles? (fwd)

[Marcus Johnson <marcus@hbe.org>]

Calling all Santa Clara Countyite Alternative Transportation Types! 
Some EV questions have come up on HBEnet (Santa Clara County's based
environmental and quality of life e-mail list).  We need local
alternative transportation advocates to take part in our HBEnet
discussion list and and posting local events to HBEAnnounce. Please
any Santa Clara County enthusiasts (Santa Clara County people only,
thanks) who can help answer questions please reply to me so I can
subscribe you and you can answer this (question below) and other
similar questions.  I'm hoping to find mature individuals who are not
solely fixated on EV as the only answer and who can explain and
promote ZEV/ULEV/LEV to an inexperienced, nontechnical (and sometimes
skeptical) but sympathetic audience.  No flamers and no
defensiveness, thanks! 

Along with this, I need someone to post LOCAL EVents to HBEAnnounce. 
Local Santa Clara County EVents only. 

Both HBEnet and HBEAnnounce are moderated lists and are low volume.

Thanks,

Marcus Johnson
Moderator of HBEnet & Exec. Dir, HeartBeat Earth
408/257-4123
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:23:06 EDT
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Subject: Re:  (HBEnet) Why Switch to Zero Emission Vehicles?

My first post to this list here--  Can anyone recomend the best EV vehicles
around?  I read in an ad that the Honda EV only travels 100 miles between
charges (this could be very prohibitive).  Can any of them do better than
this?  Where can a car be made electric and how much does this cost?

Another question/idea:  Fossil fuel is a limited resource.  That means we're
inevitably going to use it up, right?  Pretty soon as I hear, too.  If it's
all going to be used, is there much point to regulating the degree to which
it's used at any given point?  10 years of heavy pollution, or 30 of moderate
pollution?  My guess is that this logic is flawed somewhere, so if there's
something I'm missing, someone please fill me in!  Thanks-

Alex H.