Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Breaking News / Woods Morning Roundup: Tennessee Dreams of Electric Cars and More News
Posted by Jeff Woods on Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:08 AM
"This announcement puts Nissan and Tennessee at the center of building electric cars in America."VW expects more than 100,000 job applications. ... Welfare rolls are up 12 percent; food stamp recipients jump 22 percent. ... Global warming will screw Tennessee hunters and fishermen. ... Sheriff Hall talks about 287(g) with Homeland Security. ... Corker meets with Sotomayor. ... Cooper says no need to fear rationing of health care. ... Wamp's statewide leadership team. ... John Tanner and Marsha Blackburn debate pay-as-you-go budgeting. The Murfreesboro Daily News Journal is fed up with Tennessee Republicans:
These are not backwoods boys gathered in a garage somewhere telling racist jokes. They are Tennessee's Republican leaders, and not only are they turning the GOP into a fringe party, they're embarrassing the Volunteer State on the world stage.
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" Nissan is basing its strategy on making electric vehicles that cost the same as regular cars when fuel costs are taken into account"
They better not forget to include the cost of the REALLY long extension cord you'll need when your battery runs out of juice on the interstate 50 miles from the nearest town.
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What percentage of trips are made for distances of less than 50 miles?
We have two cars, one of which hasn't left the immediate Nashville area in three years. Tweedledee and Tweedledum can pretend that replacing that car with an electric one would be idiotic on the face of it, but they would be flat out wrong.
My fear is that Tennessee's "algore"-obsessed jackasses like this pair of knee-jerk wingnuts would be throwing tantrums about "pseudo-science" (as if they have facts that refute AGW, which is what testing a hypothesis is about), while other states stake a claim on the future. Regardless of your thoughts on global warming, an entire real actual industry worth billions of dollars has risen around concerns about climate change. Yet dudes like this pair would forsake economic opportunity for a set of talking points that many members of the GOP (outside Tennessee) have thrown in the garbage can.
GOP: the stupid party.
