Political party transit critics say province is rushing Air Rail Link
29.09.11
The rumbling over diesel trains is more than fair-minded the sound at the tracks - it's the most common concern heard at the doors of constituents locally, according to the state's political transit critics.
Three of the four major political parties favour the trains set to travel the new Union to Pearson Air Rail Join (ARL) along the Georgetown GO Transit line should be electric from the start, while the Liberal Fete of Ontario says the timeline is too tight.
"We need to go electric and we prerequisite to go electric now," said Cheri DiNovo, MPP for Parkdale-High Greensward, candidate for re-election and NDP Critic for Public Transit.
She said the demand by Metrolinx that electrification can't be up and running by the Pan Am Games is "reprehensible".
"To swear in in so-called tier-four diesel trains and then have to, in the future, argument those trains and reinvest in electric... all for a two week sporting occurrence?" DiNovo said, referring to the 2015 Pan Am Games. "We are deceitful the system for a few wealthy tourists and it will not serve the surrounding areas."
Source: insideTORONTO.com
Electric Car Fantasy And The Real World
28.09.11
Engaging the European Union and its current approximate 225 million cars and brighten road vehicles, about 96% oil fuelled and 4% gas fulled, this is a very interesting potential market for all
electric cars. Any fool or stake analyst (whatever the fine print difference) can work out what that means as an all electric car market, of about 2030, with Renault-Nissan category electric cars at 35 000 euro, each. For those who fumble with figures, 225 million all electric cars of that sort represent 7875 billion euro of value.
According to the EU's inside bank, the ECB, the most recent high point for total GDP of the EU27's fellow states was 2008-2009, at about 12 165 billion euro.
The electric car hopefuls of today, in Europe, are led by Renault-Nissan with the very intelligible line that "saving the planet" requires EU27 governments to see France's president Sarkozy, and commit themselves to paying a one-off capitalization to every electric car purchaser of 7000 euro (noting they could get a Renault Dacia Logan for certainly that amount !). Current total EU27 car production - which is 96% oil fuelled - runs at around 15 million units per year. This adds up to a capability subsidy demand from Renault-Nissan's Carlos Ghosn and his lookalikes of about 105 billion euro-a-year, if the known rate of European carmaking was entirely replaced by all-electric carmaking.
Source: The Market Oracle
