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Originally Posted by simmer2
I'm struggling to understand how an electric car is greener when the majority of North America's electrical production is done via coal plants.
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I don't know why I have to post this in every thread about this. But this same foolish argument keeps getting thrown around. Given the emission standards on even the dirtiest of coal power generation plants - the cleaners and scrubbers and filters - there is less pollutants that come per KW from a coal factory than from an internal combustion engine. In fact, according to the World Resources Institute, EVEN IF OUR POWER SOURCE WAS 100% FROM COAL, USING THAT POWER IN AN ELECTIC VEHICLE WOULD CUT C02 EMISSIONS BY 25%!!! And we know that coal is only half our energy and is becoming less and less and less.
Now I have posted this here before, nobody has challenged the figures from the WRI or challenged the concept, yet the same argument gets trotted out in every discussion.