OK, for the record, I refuse to argue with someone I am agreeing with, mostly.

State of Fear is a work of fiction which is peppered with foot notes indicating the lack of science behind Man Made Global Warming Craze.

I'm 37, but I remember well in the 70's all the hullabaloo (I don't think anyone on this forum's really old enough to use this word, but it's fun sometimes) about particulate in the air b/c of pollution which would block out the sun's rays and cause a pseudo nuclear winter. From the 70's freezing to the 90's warming; I think complex systems like the earth's climate might be a bit too difficult to get a solid tack on just yet (before quantum computers provide us with the modeling processor power necessary to even start trying to figure out and even then it would be folly).

The reason I find this golf cart intriguing is primarily economic. I find it interesting to have the kind of power available to me that rivals cars what would require 20 times more to operate (OK just fuel being considering so there are some gross liberties I am taking with assumptions supporting my logic). I find that a car that could accelerate me to a 0-60 in 4.8 and 155 mph while costing 1/20th the price to be scintillating thought fodder. As far as the operation I cannot extrapolate what the entire TCO would run, but being that we'll probably see $4.00 a gallon fuel in the not too distant future, the acquisition price versus the operating has to be considered for the entirety of the life of the vehicle and I was always under the impressions that electric motors had excellent reliability as they had so little moving parts and none were changing directions reducing further a source of stress, also, they were far more efficient than internal combustion engines.

I'm on board with getting rid of NIMBY and BANANA as an approach to rid ourselves of mideast oil. If Brazil (granted they have an excellent environment for producing sugar cane) can switch to an alcohol run transportation system, then why not us. It would certainly be refreshing for the government to subsidize farmers to grow as opposed to not grow crops.