Before you buy that electric car...

Electric Cars Won’t Save The Planet But Might Kill Their Drivers   "Environmentalists want us to believe that snowstorms and bitter cold are because of “global warming” and they tell us electric cars are the key to salvation. It’s all bunk. It turns out Smart Cars are as stupid as the people that buy them. A new study by the Environmental Science & Technology Journal proves what I’ve been saying all along: electric and hybrid vehicles will not reduce harmful emissions into the atmosphere."

Don’t Buy an Electric Car   ... "Still, I’m not a green Grinch. Our house is entirely powered by an enormous solar array. My wife has owned a Honda Civic Hybrid since it first came out in 2003. It just turned over 100,000 miles today. It’s a good car.
"When it comes to energy and the environment, I like to think I’m a pretty sensible, practical person. But I wouldn’t buy an electric car if you paid me. Here’s why:" ...

The Fisker; What Killed the New Electric Car  " Fisker’s failure (like that of the solar company Solyndra before it) is, as a result, being held up as evidence of the futility of all government investments in green technology. Lou Dobbs said, simply, “All they pick are losers.” And House Republican Jim Jordan, who will be chairing a hearing next week on the government’s loan to Fisker, called the company’s troubles “a very timely case study of what happens when the Department of Energy plays venture capitalist with taxpayer money.”