Bay Area To Install Electric Vehicle Grid 388
Mike writes "Recently San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland unveiled a massive concerted effort to become the electric vehicle capitol of the United States. The Bay Area will be partnering with Better Place to create an essential electric vehicle infrastructure, marking a huge step towards the acceptance of electric vehicles as a viable alternative to those that run on fossil fuels." Inhabitat.com has some conceptual illustrations and a map showing EV infrastructure, such as battery exchange stations, stretching from Sacramento to San Diego — though this is far more extensive than the Bay Area program actually announced, which alone is estimated to cost $1 billion.
In other news (Score:1, Funny)
Smug alert [wikipedia.org]! Meteorologists predict a huge smug-storm over San Francisco, on an intersection course with the smug from Obama's acceptance speech.
Saving the planet starts at home! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Something for the Buck (Score:3, Funny)
A bunch of banks packaged mortgage products together under a very elegant (and beautiful imho) design that nicely divvied up the risk and reward based on the unique, individual needs of various parties.
A troll too far, sir. You give yourself away!
Re:Can we (California) just be our own country now (Score:1, Funny)
this is cool. You know, most of the rest of the ChristianWalmartMicrosft States of America can't stand this stuff. And that's fine. I hope California can just gracefully say adios to the other 49, best wishes, etc. Kind of like how Singapore parted ways with Malaysia when they realized Singapore was doing all the heavy lifting there.
Separation you want, eh? No problem. Hell, it's been the Peoples Republik of Kalifornia for years now when it comes to personal freedoms. We'll take the Military with us if you don't mind. Based on your laws, you seem to be oblivious to crime anyway, so we wouldn't want to burden you with those budgets or protection.
Good luck, and I hope no one comes across your "free and open-minded" borders to mug you with a spork while you stand there with that "I'm sooo baked" look on your face.
Peace out.
Re:Doomed by its creators (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Doomed by its creators (Score:3, Funny)
I think AC... [isn't] afraid of anything.
I don't think you know what "Coward" [princeton.edu] means.
Re:Wrong again (Score:3, Funny)
But the problem there is that as soon as you clear up and rebuild, another giant lizard or flying turtle comes along and you have to start all over again...