Posted on 02/08/2016 12:30:59 PM PST by servo1969
Roughly 40% of U.S. energy production comes from coal and another 30% comes from natural gas & oil.
Electric cars should be referred to as coal and gas powered cars.
CO2 is as green as one can get.
I like it.
Used to be the Military was as green as you could get, OD that is .
Of course. Electricity is free and clean magic.
That’s why I call them “Coal Burning” cars.
You are demanding that the bottom half of the Bell Curve understand technology, when they can't change their own tires, or check their own oil.
They've been told that "renewable energy" can provide all the amps required to push millions of cars, daily, back and forth to work. Just look the traffic, every morning, and imagine all those cars plugged in, every night, and the first time it snows, all those electric cars, with flat batteries, half way home...
It's a new scale of eugenic stupidity, that jumps, with every new graduating class.
Yes, it is grown on the magical electric trees which are closely related to the magic trees that grow all the free money that Bernie will use to pay for all his programs.
Yes!! Enough with the CO2 BS.
CO2 is not a pollutant!!!!
CO2 pollution is a scam!!!!!
Just imagine where this goes if we....HUMANS....who respire CO2 allow this scam to proceed.
Taxes....registration...limits on life!!!!
OUR LIVES!!!!!!!
Electric often means ozone is put out. Am I wrong? So which is worse, ozone or CO2?
Bloody oath.
Total cost is a very honest indicator of how green something is. If something costs much more than a comparable alternative it is because more energy was consumed and pollution output somewhere.
It is Reagan’s fault. Seriously.
Back before Reagan, environmentalists focused on actual pollutants, i.e., stuff that should not be in the environment and that kills people. The solution, of course, was more taxes and government control over the economy.
Then, largely because of Reagan, the Iron Curtain fell. It became obvious that the countries with the most government control had the worst environments. Much of the former Soviet Union and East Europe was riddled with toxic waste dumps. Meanwhile, successful capitalist countries were steadily cleaning up actual pollution from the environment. Basic Maslow’s Heirarchy of Needs. When you do not have to constantly worry about whether you can house and feed your children you can start focusing on cleaning up your environment.
So environmentalists switched their focus to carbon dioxide, a substance that not only should be in the environment, but that is vital to the continued existence of all life on Earth. Why focus on carbon dioxide? Because successful capitalist countries have much higher standards of living then communist and socialist countries and consequently generate and use much more electric power per capita. More electric power necessarily results in the production of more carbon dioxide per capita (if you ignore all of the natural sources of carbon dioxide).
The solution, of course, is more taxes and government control of the economy.
Why does no one talk about what happens to the car after its effective useful life? Is it because the battery in the car is far worse for the environment than the car was ever good for the environment during its active useful life. These multi-thousand dollar batteries have a very long decay life. We will be long gone before these batteries will.
Nope. The batteries are no problem. When they reach the end of their useful life they automatically turn into rainbows and carbon free unicorn farts.
I seem to remember reading an article a few years ago that we dump the batteries in India for reclamation. I could be wrong though.
A lot of our stuff goes to China to be recycled. It is the both beneficial to the environment and to humans. Building a safe and clean earth for everyone! /s (Below is a google search of images).
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