Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell argues in the following viewpoint that electric cars are unsafe, impractical, and polluting. He contends that the design of electric cars is flawed: electric cars are so small that they are unsafe in highway collisions, and they run on batteries that need to be recharged too often to be practical for most transportation needs. Most important, Sowell contends that although electric cars themselves do not pollute, the electricity used to run them is generated at power plants that emit pollution. Thomas Sowell is a syndicated columnist.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. What condition has California’s government imposed on car manufacturers, according to Sowell"
2. In Sowell’s opinion, who will inevitably pay for the electric cars that nobody wants"
3. Why doesn’t the public want to...