On Fri, 01 May 2009 11:41:34 -0400, HK wrote:


What's really sad to me is that in the late 1970's, GM or Ford or
Chrysler could have decided to allocate enough funds to develop the sort
of batteries we need now to make "electric" cars affordable and
practical. Twenty five years of solid, advancing development would have
made a real difference for us by now.

Well, if we are talking past history, imagine if Reagan hadn't dismantled
Carter's initiative to be energy independent by the year 2000. It
probably would have saved us from three wars, and prevented the largest
transfer of wealth in human history. But hey, history is a bore.