[LINK] Standards, please! The third coming of electric vehicles

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 20:14 +1000, David Boxall wrote:
> On 22/04/2012 1:02 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
>  > In what way has history shown EVs to blight lives?!?
>  > ...
> Are you really claiming ignorance of the impact of used batteries sent
> to the third world for processing? What can be done with them is not 
> necessarily what is done.

For goodness sake. This is not EVs blighting lives, this is not even
batteries blighting lives, this is commercial greed blighting lives. You
don't decry clothing as a defective technology for keeping warm because
your sneakers are produced in sweatshops, do you?

If your alternative fuels have nasty byproducts, you can bet your bottom
dollar that people will try to site the production facilities in places
with lax environmental or worker protection laws, aided and abetted by
all the fine upstanding citizens of Niceville who want them sited
"anywhere but here". That is a whole other set of issues, and a complete
red herring in this discussion.

There is nothing intrinsic to EVs that requires irresponsible
manufacturing or recycling practices. Fossil fuel emissions, on the
other hand, are intrinsically bad, and blight people's lives regardless
of where they are emitted, how they are emitted and by whom they are
emitted.

Regards, K.

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