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Originally Posted by bsirhc
Adding to the emission discussion regarding electric cars in America is the fact that about half of our electricity is generated from coal burning plants.
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adding to that - most "pollution" or enviromental impact, carbon foot print, depending how you quantify it... regardless, allways comes out to be buildings being #1 contributors. cars are not the major pollutor - its buildings / industry. cars are just an easy visible target becasue we don't "see" the pollution from metro dense electricity and water use. clean up buildings.
cattle and farming is, i believe second - and cars 3rd. (or its vice versa? - i forget, but meat and poultry have a huge enviromental impact, mostly from pesticides, fertalizer, poo, and water use - it sounds awefully, but there really should be a "meat tax" to force the producers to clean up their mess)
most cars on the roads in the US are not cars.... so becareful what #'s your looking at too.