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Deneen's Cynicism about Electric Cars

By Stuart Buck

Patrick Deneen of Georgetown has some typically bracing thoughts about electric cars, and, by extension, about our whole way of life: * * * Our environmental "greenness" is as substantial as our March 17 Irishness: each is wholly superficial and bears no actual relation to reality.A case in point: out of curiosity, I attended the Washington D.C. Auto Show two weeks ago, and wasn't remotely surprised that every auto manufacturer prominently advertised all the ways that they are embracing a "green future." Signs bragging about the mileage of existing cars - as if the frequent invocation that a car can get 30 mpg will convince us that this is actually good mileage! * * * This is a feel-good advertising campaign that promises more of just what we've been doing - paying absolutely no attention to what it is we are doing...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on February 08, 2008 (boomark / email).