#157 - Musk: "3 fires, with no serious injuries, received more headlines than 250,000+ gasoline fires"

Interesting article on the treehugger.com website with some decent perspective on the recent Tesla car fires.

http://www.treehugger.com/cars/elon-musk-3-model-s-fires-no-serious-injuries-or-deaths-received-more-national-headlines-all-250000-gasoline-fires-combined.html

We were talking about these cars in a recent blog post because we had one parked outside of our facility the other day.

Besides the many car fires, it seems like there is an accident, fire, or spill with petroleum products somewhere in the news every day. The extraction, refining, transport, and combustion of fossil fuels is without a doubt prone to incidents. How this record will compare to automotive battery technology in the future remains to be seen. But it is hard to imagine that the Tesla will seriously pose even a minor danger compared to the activities of big oil.

Elon Musk's comments in the title allude to that realistic comparison despite the media attention suggesting the opposite.

Oil fire picture - AP / Diario EL Amanecer from http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/deadly-venezuela-oil-refinery-blast-expected-to-impact-gas-prices-1.929521

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