Comments on: Getting a Charge out of Driving

By: Robert Marston

Robert Marston — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:42:27 +0000

Amory is fantastic. It’s good to see America may be getting serious about the weight issue. We need to keep pushing the cost of EVs down.

By: Bill Hewitt

Bill Hewitt — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:19:32 +0000

I’m not entirely sure what you find so amusing, but regarding Amory Lovins, it appears that companies and institutions of note take him pretty seriously. His client list from his bio reads this way: “Mr. Lovins’s clients have also included Accenture, Allstate, AMD, Anglo American, Anheuser-Busch, Bank of America, Baxter, Borg-Warner, BP, HP Bulmer, Carrier, Chevron, CIBA-Geigy, CLSA, ConocoPhillips, Corning, Dow, EDS, Equitable,
Ford, GM, HP, Invensys, Lockheed Martin, Mitsubishi, Monsanto, Motorola, Norsk Hydro, Petrobras, Prudential, Rio Tinto, Royal Dutch/Shell, Shearson Lehman Amex, STMicroelectronics, Sun Oil, Suncor, Texas Instruments, UBS, Unilever, Westinghouse, Xerox, major developers, and over 100 energy utilities. His public-sector clients have included OECD, UN, RFF, the Australian, Canadian, Dutch, German, and Italian governments, 13 states, Congress, and the U.S. Energy and Defense Departments.”

That being said, your comment about cars is useful. Lovins and everybody else that is involved in transportation planning fully understand the critical importance of mass transit.

By: Michael Dawson

Michael Dawson — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:09:01 +0000

ROFL on this supposedly hard-headed “foreign policy analysis.” Quoting Amory Lovins on transportation is like quoting W.C. Fields on sobriety.

News flash: The problem with cars is not just carbon. It’s also energy use. Regardless of fuel source, it is inherently insane to accomplish everybody’s everyday locomotion tasks with 3,500 pound machines that sit idle for 95 percent of their lives.