Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Electric cars in cohousing

[areinert (areinert]

On Thu, 2 Mar 1995, Bob Morrison wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Mar 95 09:38:51 EST, dme [at] pollux.cs.uga.edu (Dan Everett) wrote:
> 
> > Subject: Re: Coho & Makin' Dough --> Sustainability?
> 
> > This [excessive vehicle-miles] is a real concern to many of us at Kinney 
> > Ridge. It seems that car-pooling
> > would help a lot; beyond that we'd like to explore some kind of communally
> > owned electric vehicle (or super-efficient vehicle(s) ).
> 
>   This reminds me of a suggestion I would like to make. That is to install
> wiring for outlets next to some of the parking spaces so that in case some
> of the residents want to buy electric cars in the future, the facilities are

Being another wet blanket: Plug in electric cars.  Where does the 
electricity they use come from?  Hydro (here), fossil fuel, or, gasp, 
nuclear?  It isn't magically generated eco-cost free. I don't want to 
start a long thread on this, but just a pet peeve of mine that electric 
cars are assumed to be inherantly pollution cleaner or more efficient 
than vehicles that carry and burn their own fossil fuel.  What's needed 
is to reduce commuter miles, increase commuter miles/unit of fuel.

Arne