Talk:Green vehicle

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A petroleum car that uses biodiesel is more ecological than a gasoline or petrol car, but it ´s not a green car, because it cannot use a CO2-free energy. (Not true, net CO2 in the atmosphere remains the same on a seasonal time-scale as CO2 used with sunlight and water produce oils for biodiesel, and cellulose and sugars can be used to create bio-alcohols. These can be used to run normal internal combustion engines, or hybrids).

These ones that only uses renewable energy (a hydrogen or electric car) are more ecological green vehicles than an hybrid car). (Electric and Hydrogen are not renewable; they are only a means of storing energy, and that energy comes most economically from old coal plants that grandfather their way into existence, nuclear power, whose plants are old designs and not as safe as they future ones may be, or large-scale hydroelectric projects.)

[edit] bikes

what about bikes? Are not they the best green vehicles?--GengisKanhg (my talk) 22:04, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I would argue that the massive amounts of battery acid used in Hybrid vehicles which need to be kept from the water table of the planet eisqualify the hybrid as a green vehicle.