[sustran] Re: Better Place sustainable transportation and business model

[Peter Smith]

I have a view!  :)  i don't like it.

http://bikeblogs.org/sf/2008/12/02/just-so-were-not-confused/

saving cars is bad, and i'm also thinking of the Jevons Paradox, named after
William Stanley Jevons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

less energy on the micro-scale, but much more energy on the macro scale.
boo.


On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Ramon Fernan <bayk_aksyon at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Don't know if this topic has been discussed here but what do people think
> of Shai Agassi's Better Place business model for promoting electric cars?
> More junk on the road? Not even worth considering? Better Place has a
> website: www.betterplace.com and Agassi has a blog to promote his ideas:
> http://shaiagassi.typepad.com/. Thomas Friedman of the NYT (
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/opinion/27friedman.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin)
> has lately been promoting his plan to rid the world of dependence on (Arab)
> oil. (Agassi is Israeli).
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.peter
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