Gasoline Is Greener - - - Sometimes

[aknaten]

STUDY: YOUR ALL-ELECTRIC CAR MAY NOT BE SO GREEN

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-12-15-15-01-37

(I'd post the full text here but it is copyrighted. Basically, if you charge your electric car from a coal powered power plant, you are producing more pollution than burning gasoline.)

 

[Gas-Powered Awesome]

Yup. Which is why the Elio is Gas-Powered Awesome! here in the coal-powered Mid-Atlantic.

 

[Rickb]

Sometimes is the Key word here as coal produces only 39% of the country's electricity. Alternative energy sources is the key to get us away from foriegn oil. I'm not anti gas powered awesome......electricy is just as awesome or even more so because it could power my future EV and currently powers my big screen TV.

 

[JP]

A fully electric car powered by solar panels, hydro, or wind power and using hemp-based materials would probably be the most green.

 

[Craig]

 

[zelio]

A fully electric car powered by solar panels, hydro, or wind power and using hemp-based materials would probably be the most green.

I'm not particularly interested in the electric car but using solar panels, hydro, or wind power plus hemp-based materials sounds great to me. I know they are using hemp based materials as insulation in Great Britain and they find it makes more efficient insulation and is lighter weight than traditional materials. :-) Z

 

[JP]

I'm not particularly interested in the electric car but using solar panels, hydro, or wind power plus hemp-based materials sounds great to me. I know they are using hemp based materials as insulation in Great Britain and they find it makes more efficient insulation and is lighter weight than traditional materials. Z

Plus "you can smoke the beejezus out of it when you're done"

 

[zelio]

Plus "you can smoke the beejezus out of it when you're done"

I'm afraid that is a different kid of hemp. The kind I mean, industrial hemp, does not have enough THC to do what you want to do if you use marijuana. :-) Z

 

[Devilstower]

Actually, there's almost no place in the nation where this is true. Even in my part of Missouri, where coal accounts for 80% of electricity, electric cars produce less CO2—and far less of several other emissions.

Check this calculator for your area.

http://www.afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/electric_emissions.php

 

[Jim H]

The government has an agenda and I doubt many of their reports now because they have a habit of using statistics that fit their agenda. This would be more believable if it were supported by a reputable private organization.