Neil Young and the Electric Car
Anti-establishment rocker Neil Young and mechanic Johnathan Goodwin are working on converting Young’s gas guzzling 1959 Lincoln Continental into an electric car. Young has already invested $120,000 into the project.
Young has teamed up with Johnathan Goodwin, a Wichita mechanic who has developed a national reputation for re-engineering the power units of big cars to get more horsepower but use less fuel.
The two are looking to convert Young’s 1959 Lincoln Continental convertible to operate on an electric battery.
After several decades Young has realized that you might inspire people with music but you are rarely going to change them. He seems himself and Goodwin changing the world if they can help the electric car go mainstream.
“You know, I thought long ago you could change the world by writing songs,” he said.
“But you can’t change the world by writing songs. Oh, you can inspire a few people, get some of them to change their thinking about something. But you can’t change the world by writing songs.
“But we could change it with this car.”
Young, with who I sometimes agree and often disagree with, said something that I whole heartedly second in regard to middle-east oil:
“We’re going to change the world; we’re going to create a car that will allow us to stop giving our wealth to other countries for petroleum.”
He is exactly right! As soon as we have an alternative to oil and gas we can totally get our interests out of the middle east and make the region non-existent to the rest of the world. The only reason we have to care about the region and their policies is because our economy is so dependent upon their oil.
If Congress won’t let us tap and drill into our own oil reserves in Alaska then finding an alternative energy source becomes of the utmost necessity.
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actually, even if Congress did let us drill in the Arctic it still would not be sufficient to keep us on oil as it takes nearly a decade to get a drill site up and in a decade gas will likely be over 150 a barrell. No matter if oil interests win political battles at this point, we’re entering a long and hard recession unless we invest heavily with our present wealth into sustainable and clean solar technology. Solar’s really our only promise, though the initial investment is rather costly and would require some advances in the field of nano-technology. The upside is that once we have a solar panel, it’s free for life, and so long as our Congress isn’t idiotic enough to actually think we can solve global warming by darkening out the sun, we get to use Nature’s method of energy production directly. Everything living, with the exception of some rare and weird life forms near the thermal crust of the deepest part of the oceans, is here because of the energy of the Sun.