Electric Vehicles, Diesel Cars, Peak Oil, Tesla and the Oil Companies.

I started writing this post as a response to a comment left by RandyC, and I decided to make it a new topic instead.
RandyC said that the Mitsubishi MiEV is on his list of EVs that he’d buy, and the Tesla Roadster is not.

The Tesla Roadster is also not on my list of cars to buy and I’ll explain why.


I’m shopping for a new car at the moment. Two years ago I made a promise to myself that I’d not buy a gasoline car ever again. If I ever do it’ll be a collective item and not my primary car.

Back in 2006 when I understood the energy crisis that humanity is going to face (and many will argue we are already facing it – I’m referring to Peak Oil) I already knew that EV technology was far superior to the conventional cars that use the greatly obsolete Internal Combustion Engine. So I started promoting EVs, and researching the market and EV technology.

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