Dirty Coal statistic of the day

One of the most common responses to solar-charged driving and, more generally, to the renewable energy + electric car combo, is that it can’t be done.

If you spend any time trolling the Internet for news coverage of electric vehicles and/or renewable energy, you see this criticism, in slightly different variations, again and again.

It’s too expensive. It’s inefficient. It’s not realistic. It’s pie-in-the sky. It will never happen.

Let’s deconstruct each of these faulty criticisms one by one.

We all have the things in life that rev us up. For me, for the past year, one of those things has been solar-charged driving.

I first discovered that, yes, you really could run a full-sized car on sun last June.

Back then, I thought it was simply incredible that you could power a car without producing any air pollution whatsoever. That's right, none whatsoever. Add to this the fact that, with solar-charged driving, you flip the bird at Big Oil, and, if you live in a solar friendly place with good solar incentives like we do in Colorado, the fact that you save money too!

On top of this all, solar-charged driving is radically simple.

Dear BP,
Life has been pretty tough for you and your CEO lately. And we know that you “want your life back”.

Frankly, that won’t happen until you’ve capped that pesky “little” oil spill you’ve got down there in the Gulf of Mexico and the tens of millions of gallons of oil that have gushed out in the last two months stop killing wildlife and stop washing up on beaches in the U.S. and Mexico.

We – and you – know your image, especially in the U.S., has taken a serious hit, as has your bottom line and your stock.

But there’s hope, quite a lot of it, actually, if you dare to step outside the deadweight of conventional thinking and, forgive the play on acronyms here, you begin to think of yourself not in terms of Backward Petroleum, but in terms of Bold Plans which will help push us Beyond Petroleum.