I know that some people love to blame everything on our Muslim, Kenyan, black president but...
Probably best not to blame Solyndra on Obama since Bush started it.
http://www.politifact.com/trut...
http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

I installed solar panels this summer and they should generate 100% of my electric use (including electric car) over the course of a year.
I probably have an average American standard of living.
So I see no need to huddle in the dark and cold this winter and there is no reason the rest of the world could not enjoy this same standard of living.
Of course, investments will be needed in the grid and storage and base load but these can be made relatively cheaply, especially if there is a carbon tax to shift investment decisions from carbon to renewables.
Also... stop eating meat. Meat production worldwide produces more greenhouse gasses (16%) than transportation (13%). It's also cheaper and healthier to stop eating meat.

They flushed it down the drain by mistake.
Drains lead to water treatment facilities (by design).
Treated and released into the river.
Shouldn't be a problem but there are some religious nutters who don't vaccinate downstream so if it wasn't treated adequately, they could get infected.

Plus... often it's other people's money.
Business travelers just charge it to the company.

Would that be Xerox?... or Sony?... or Commodore?
 

The Feds made a big mistake by not specifying and requiring interoperability as the very first item.
Now that they have paid for people to install all of these different systems, it's very difficult (expensive, time consuming, kludgy) to bolt on interoperability to the installed base.
Big mistake.

Watch "Revenge of the Electric Car". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt14...
It covers a period when both SpaceX and Tesla were on the verge of bankruptcy and Musk put the very last of his savings into making payroll at Tesla. He had no reserve. He was "all in".

No free lunch for Tesla.
In California, there are annual vehicle license fees which go a long way towards paying for roads, etc.
Here's the cost to register a Tesla. The sales tax is only paid once but the other fees are annual.

Current Registration: 43.00
Current California Highway Patrol: 24.00
Current Vehicle License Fee: 651.00
Current Auto Theft DUI Crime Deterrence Program: 1.00
Current Air Quality Management District 6.00
Alt Fuel/Tech Reg Fee: 3.00
Use/Sales Tax: 7,500.00
Total Registration Fees: 730.00
Total Use/Sales Tax: 7,500.00
Grand Total Registration Fees: 8,230.00

I know that you didn't read the k/s page but it really does help:

"We’ve based much of our work on the large amount of scientific literature available on fluorescence spectroscopy for oil identification. A selection of articles have been collected and summarized on this page -- and we welcome contributions to the list. "
http://publiclab.org/wiki/oil-...

You clearly are clueless about the poor. They are working minimum wage jobs (with hours that vary on the whim of their employer) and living literally hand to mouth. They need a car to get to their crappy job. They don't have an extra few hundred or thousand to "pay cash". They have to pay rent and utilities and buy food. After that, there's nothing left.

There's an Instructable for that:
http://www.instructables.com/i...

I think it's better as Boing, boing, boing!

I have stuff that I only want to share with close associates. I wouldn't use any social media site to do it, though.
This idea is just stupid. However, there are a lot of rich people with more money than brains so it could be wildly successful.

The entire car is built of aluminum so it should last a long time (and can be easily recycled into beer cans or new cars at low energy cost).
Li batteries can also be recycled... wait for it... into new Li batteries.

Musk never said he'd build the hyperloop. He just said, here's an idea (free) to use if you want.
OTOH, SpaceX and Tesla Motors are doing quite well, thank you.