Too many electric lights eradicate a sense of being outside, overpowering stars and fireflies.

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Plans aired on April 16th to subsidise buyers of electric cars from 2011 make sense, despite the current limitations of that technology.

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Now the electric car begins to make economic sense.

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And according to our friends at the solar company Sungevity, the cost of the installation would be earned back with savings on the electric bill in the first five years, so an installation makes fiscal sense, as well.

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Electric vehicles that carry Doritos or books from Amazon.com might make a lot more sense than ones that carry families.

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More than 85% of U.S. households have cable modem or DSL service available to them, he says, so it doesn't make sense for a utility to spend the money to deploy broadband over gas or electric in most of the country.

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Amid breathless talk about the future of electric cars, Ford Motor Co. figures hybrids, which still use gasoline, will make more sense for most drivers.

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On the other hand, this conflation makes far more sense in the long term, as our electrical grid becomes more sophisticated, and as electric vehicles begin the inevitable switch from internal combustion engines to electric motors or some other renewable source of power.

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For driving, no fuel is yet greener in the proper sense of using fewer overall resources than petroleum based gasoline, and we can acknowledge that an electric car is actually coal-powered.

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