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if ignition comes from coal, “electric cars produce 3.6 times more soot and smog deaths than gas, because of the pollution made in generating the electricity.”

and if the electricity comes from windmills.....

Big Wind's Dirty Little Secret: Toxic Lakes and Radioactive waste...

http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/analysis/big-winds-dirty-little-secret-rare-earth-minerals/

Oct 23, 2013 - Modern wind turbines depend on rare earth minerals mined primarily from China. ... Big Wind's Dependence on China's “Toxic Lakes”.

Also this:

A few residents in Falmouth, Massachusetts have finally won in their battle to have local wind turbines shut down due to the noise levels that they produced.

The Department of Environmental Protection released a report on Tuesday which stated that the noise levels from turbines less than 1,500 feet from the nearest home exceeded the acceptable state levels. Three megawatts of wind power will be shut down whilst further investigations are under way.

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And the 10’s of thousands of dead birds.

If the wind power plants had to pay the fines for killing birds like other industries, no amount of government subsidies could keep them in business.