Environmental Science

Recently, our class have been discussing new electric cars and all the benefits of which they have to offer, such as tax benfits. We have not, however, talked much about the negatives to electric cars. For one, all if not most of the electric cars that are commonly known to everyone look cheap and nasty. The cars are not pleasing to the senses at all and at best can be described as fancy golf carts. Secondly, speaking of golf carts, are golf carts safe to drive on roads and big highways? Most people in the right mind would respond instantly with a no. Would you want to drive something that is really no more than a souped up golf cart on a road or highway? Would you feel safe in one? I know that I certainly would not, because if I were to get into an accident, I would most likely not survive due to the lack of crumple space that the car does not posses. Finally, an electric car today can not go very far at all. Electric cars do not get great milage, which would make them useless outside a city, as the countryside lacks convinient places to charge the cars to full again. After reveiwing these few facts, I would definitely not get an electric car and would consider them to be over-rated and useless unless in a city.