| Re: About six times as expensive....
Clive George wrote:
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> That's a very big if. Small IC engines are currently mucky beasts, and
> the leglislation reflects that - I'm not talking about future
> leglislation covering engines which don't actually exist.
>
I get into this issue on that page. The price of something is
essentially a measure of the resources used in making it--so if an
electric setup costs more to operate than a gasoline engine, then the
electric probably uses more resources, and also more than likely creates
more pollution.
> More importantly, pollution is about more than exhaust emissions. Think
> of the other significant disadvantage small IC engines have...
>
> clive
Like what?
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