[ExI] Doomsday Oil Price: (was RIP: Peak Oil)

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 16:50:24 UTC 2012


On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:50 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/2/27 James Clement queried:
>> Can you point me to a State where electric tractors are being used
>> extensively for farming? I don't recall ever seeing one. Thanks.
>
> I haven't heard about electric farm tractors either.
> Hmmmm. Looks like Google hasn't either.

Eh?  "Electric tractor" and "electric farm tractor" get plenty of results.

> There are lots of small electric vehicles, like fork-lift trucks,
> dune-buggy type cars, even lawnmowers, but not big electric tractors
> for heavy farming use.

Is http://renewables.com/Permaculture/ElectricTractor.htm big enough?

> I'd be interested if you can provide links to electric farm tractors.
> They certainly don't seem to be in extensive use at present.

Not as extensive as ICE, granted - not even close.  Just like for autos,
for the same reason.



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