Comments on: Right, Wrong & Out There: A Decade of Predictions for Green Transit by 2010 http://gigaom.com/cleantech/right-wrong-out-there-a-decade-of-predictions-for-green-transit-by-2010/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:27:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Five green transportation predictions from the past decade – and how they fared | Green Resouces http://gigaom.com/cleantech/right-wrong-out-there-a-decade-of-predictions-for-green-transit-by-2010/#comment-29349 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:57:33 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=48246#comment-29349 [...] at Earth2Tech, they’ve taken a look at a handful of specific prognostications made during the first half of [...]

]]> By: ThePumaBlog » Blog Archive » 2010 Transportation Predictions: What is the Reality? http://gigaom.com/cleantech/right-wrong-out-there-a-decade-of-predictions-for-green-transit-by-2010/#comment-29348 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:22:40 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=48246#comment-29348 [...] has posted an interesting article which takes a look at some of the predictions made for green transportation at the beginning of the decade, and how close those predictions were to reality. While the decade [...]

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]]> By: Roy http://gigaom.com/cleantech/right-wrong-out-there-a-decade-of-predictions-for-green-transit-by-2010/#comment-29345 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:49:43 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=48246#comment-29345 I’m really torn. I think that EVs particularly BEVs are one of the steps needed for the salvation of our future. EVs are currently too expensive for mass adoption but there are several promising technologies on the horizon to bring the cost down. This will not happen without “early adopters” willing to spend premium $ to help get us there.

There are so many reason:

  1. Oil is too precious to burn. All our synthetic and plastic industry depends on it. About 1/2 of oil production goes to industry. If we burn it the price will only continue to rise and drive up the costs of plastics. Plastics are recyclable, and do not add CO2 to the atmosphere.

  2. We cannot continue to export most of our wealth to support terrorism, fight wars, lower our standard of living. Converting transportation to run from local renewable sources instead of importing fuel will go a long way to balancing trade deficit.

  3. Global Warming is real, there is serious possibility that the arctic lands will get warm enough to start releasing large quantities of methane into the atmosphere. If this happens then all life on earth will die. Apparently this happened 55 million years ago, dynasours died off and eventually we came along. Maybe the oil companies can harvest this methane and save us from this fate.

So how will this play out? Will we in 10 years be solving our economic and pollution problems or will be be complacently waiting for the arctic lands to erupt with methane? Unfortunately the prognosis does not look good and I predict that we will have not learned our lessons yet, we will have gone through yet another near-meltdown of the world financial economy, but will finally be buying EVs in earnest, not to save the world, but just because they will be cheaper than ICEs at that time. Standard of living will have dropped significantly and unemployment will remain high. It will unfortunately take a bloody revolution to unseat those who control our economy and replace the financial system with a long term stable one, and get the world’s economy working properly. Type of government is irrelevant, it is the monetary system that has to change.

Happy New Year!

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