The final word on gas vs electric cars.
- From: "aol@xxxxxxx" <geneccc@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:47:33 -0700
I hear this question a lot: aren't you just shifting the pollution
from the individual gas tail pipes to the coal-burning power plants?
Well, of course, not all of electricity is made with coal. It's
somewhere around half, and the rest of it is natural gas, nuclear,
wind, solar.
But if you do the math, you'll find that an electric car, even if you
use coal to make the electricity, produces less pollution per mile
than the best gasoline-powered car.
And there's another aspect to this. The oil that we burn in our cars,
a large chunk of it comes from the Middle East. And a lot of it comes
from places that don't like us so well, either, places that are simply
not good for national security, right?
Whereas, even if we're burning coal, where does that coal come from?
America. It's our own energy. So from that perspective, even if it's a
break-even on pollution, we're better off burning coal than burning
oil.
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