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Battery Juice

Keeping the electric car in motion. Also: Clearing the Mideast air. Gadget inspectors at the wheel. Conventional McCain. Plus more.

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Although I agree with virtually everything in Mr. Tucker’s article, he is mistaken when he says that Rush Limbaugh’s TV show never did very well. It won good ratings, for a 30 minute syndicated show, that only got better over time. This was in spite of the fact that the show was usually buried in a late night slot. This was also pre-TiVo. He quit doing the show because of time constraints and his dislike of the format. It wasn’t as spontaneous as radio and did not showcase his strengths. One of which is knowing his own strengths.

Rush gets slimed enough from the left, I just wanted to make sure the facts were correct when he is referenced by his “sympaticos.”.

p>And yes, the electric car died because there was no market for such an inferior product. Ironically, that’s exactly why Socialism will fail. There is no market for such an inferior product. br> — David Cowling br> Dallas, Texas /p>

“Significantly, all of these people were leasing their EV1s. None actually bought them.”

p>This was due to the fact that the EV1 was never available for sale, only lease. The reason was that the manufacturer did not want to maintain repair parts for seven years like they would have to if the cars were sold. br> — unsigned /p>

The author pretty much missed the whole point, the fact that a whole lot of electricity is used to charge these things; plug into the grid and you’re using fossil fuels, hence polluting. Evil people!

And, figure that the converting from one fuel to another loses about 15 percent efficiency?

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