Gas prices in Greenville, SC, area are coming down. Actually started going down from $3.04/gal the day before Thanksgiving. Now we’re in the $2.85 range.
All that notwithstanding, if we’re awash in petroleum and likely to remain so for a while tell me why alternative energy usage now is necessary.
I was in San Francisco a couple of years ago and passed one of those busses that run on overhead electricity. A sign on the vehicle said the bus was reducing SF’s carbon footprint or some such. Do those Marxist walking dead out there on the left coast really believe the fossil fuel power plant necessary to produce the power that runs the busses is carbon footprint neutral—let alone negative?
Well, it is possible to produce the electricity to power the busses from hydro, wind, solar or nuclear power, all of which are carbon neutral.
And if the net carbon footprint of the electric bus is less than that of the diesel equivalent, it does reduce the city's carbon footprint.