Comments on: Costco Pulls Plug on Electric Vehicle Chargers

By: Michal

Michal — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:09:22 +0000

Geologist? Educated when? Do you read any scientific journals today?? Just as I wouldn’t trust a doctor educated in the 30′s or 40′s who hadn’t kept up with the latest knowledge, I am firmly convinced that the crop of geologists who were educated way back when and who are constantly recruited to sign pledges of disbelief in climate change so as to add some “scientist cred” are far behind the knowledge curve in the field.

By: Michal

Michal — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:04:45 +0000

Now that’s an ignorant and scientific fact-bereft comment if I’ve ever seen one.
We have seen an enormous increase in the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere since the dawn of the industrial age coupled with increasing temperatures. Nobody is looking to attain “little CO2 in our atmosphere.” What is sought is a decrease in the rate of increased Co2 in our atmosphere and a return to levels in the past decades. Even if the planet has naturally occurring CO2 emissions, i.e. volcanic activity, bog decay release, why should we do everything we can to make this worse? Is that how you treat your children when they have a fever? Plunk em into the hot tub?

By: Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Go the Way of the Buggy Whip At Least At Costco They Do | Are We Aware Yet? Political News Blog-Current News Political News Blog

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:53:31 +0000

[...] (Global Warming) – Costco is removing its electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, citing lack of consumer demand, reports Jim Motavalli in the New York Times. Plug-In America, an EV advocacy group, has issued an “action alert” urging its members to email Costco CEO James Sinegal and ask him to maintain and upgrade the charging stations. From Montavalli’s article: Costco, the membership warehouse-club chain, was an early leader in offering electric-vehicle charging to its customers, setting an example followed by other retailers, including Best Buy and Walgreen. By 2006, Costco had installed 90 chargers at 64 stores, mostly in California but also some in Arizona, New York and Georgia. Even after General Motors crushed its EV1 battery cars, the Costco chargers stayed in place. [...]

By: BobRGeologist

BobRGeologist — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:58:15 +0000

In 1923 I remember electric buggies running around Chicago in the high rent district along Michigan Ave. on my first visit to my mother and stepfather’s place. Here we are nearly 100 years later going back to electric propulsion in much more sophisticated vehicles under the guise of going “green.” An entirely political move long before the necessity of abandoning carbon based fuels. If man succeeds in attaining the environmentalist’s ideal of little CO2 in our atmosphere, we will have set the stage for the return of the next Pleistocene 100,000 year glaciation #6, starvation of billions and a return of the “hunter-gatherer” lifestyle