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Originally Posted by markthecarp  You are serious, wow, how incredibly naive. I don't know those folks here but do know a neighbor that has an electric Honda. When I pointed out the power here comes from a coal powered plant she blinked her eyes three or four times and said "Oh." The context of the conversation was my offering to till her garden space with a gasoline powered tiller; she declined my offer initially but changed her mind after 6 hours or so of hand work with a shovel.
I suppose 2 hours of gasoline exhaust produced less green house gases than the 6+ hours of her manual labor ;-)
-mark |
I had a discussion with someone yesterday about this and she told me that electric vehicles produce no emissions. Then I told her that they do, though indirectly, because the plants that provide the energy use fossil fuels and that even the nuclear ones produce other types of waste (heat and radioactive waste). So the only people who should feel "superior" are the ones who use solar or wind power to charge their vehicles.
I assume you meant that the people who think they are morally superior because they have an electric car are naive. Yes, in most cases that is true.