Three reasons why your comment is ignorant:
1. Teslas get 100 MPGe. So they use about 1/4 the energy a comparable internal-combustion car uses.
2. Coal is no longer the dominant, or even largest, source of electrical power in the U.S.
Natural Gas = 34%
Coal = 32%
Nuclear = 20%
Renewables =13%
Petroleum = 1%
3. 97% of new electrical power generation capacity last year was from renewables.
“1. Teslas get 100 MPGe. So they use about 1/4 the energy a comparable internal-combustion car uses.”
Based on what price of gas? $5/gallon??
“Coal = 32%”
Not by natural free market selection, but because Obama has artificially shut down hundreds of coal plants.
Big whoop - a motorcycle can do that. Teslas are sports cars, specifically for good efficiency and not for good carrying capacity or comfort.97% of new electrical power generation capacity last year was from renewables.
. . . which says that subsidies are buying a lot of wind turbine peak (under ideal circumstances of weather and demand) "capacity.” Scare quotes around “capacity” because when you need electricity you may not have much wind.Coal will likely decline, even post-Obama. Fracking is a cheaper way of getting fuel.
The author claims that there has been, and expects in the future more to come, progress in IC engine design. A point not lightly to be disregarded.
Counting hydroelectric in the renewable column? Wind and solar counted as nameplate maximum output, or actual annual average output?
Wrong. Don’t try to impress us all with your stupidity.