'Green News Report' - March 6, 2012

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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Iran war talk jacks up US gas prices... while Republicans cheer; VA Supreme Court smacks down climate change denier witch hunt; Meet the 'new normal' for tornado season; PLUS: 2 years after disaster: BP settles with Gulf coast plaintiffs...and gets off pretty easy, so far... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Conservative economist slams deniers: Conservative economist Nordhaus slams skeptics: 'Cost of delay is $4 trillion'; MIT: making solar power competitive with coal; This Week gets it wrong on gas prices; Limbaugh attacks help put Chevy Volt workers out of a job; CO uranium mine poisons creek; A big fracking bubble: the scam behind the gas boom; Arctic ice melt changing climate system; Japan leaders feared "devil's chain reaction" ... PLUS: Science: Ocean acidifying so fast it threatens humanity's food supply ... and much, MUCH more! ...

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Comments

[marbiol]

09:54 PM on 03/06/2012

charles lane raised a troubling [to me anyhow!] question in his column in today's post:
"Oh, and how are you supposed to resell your electric vehicle once you’ve driven it five years and the battery is depleted?"

The cost?? Installation?? It appears its still a reasonable chunk of change---maybe a few grand???
Nice little surtax when you want to buy a used Volt, Leaf, etc!

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/05/26/assaulted-batteries.html

[apeweek]

10:06 PM on 03/07/2012

People said the same thing when hybrids hit the market. But in fact, batteries have lasted much longer than anyone expected, and resale values on hybrids are superior, in most cases, to standard cars.

Likewise the few full EVs that have been on the market already - the Toyota RAV4 EV, and Ranger EV from 10 years ago. These cars have enjoyed very good resale values.

The battery technology in today's electric cars are warranted for 100,000 miles / 8 years and could wind up lasting twice that long.