Posted on 07/02/2013 11:29:45 AM PDT by CutePuppy
BERKELEY, Calif., July 1 (UPI) Electric cars, despite their supposed green credentials, are among the environmentally dirtiest transportation options, a U.S. researcher suggests.
Writing in the journal IEEE Spectrum, researcher Ozzie Zehner says electric cars lead to hidden environmental and health damages and are likely more harmful than gasoline cars and other transportation options.
Electric cars merely shift negative impacts from one place to another, he wrote, and "most electric-car assessments analyze only the charging of the car. This is an important factor indeed. But a more rigorous analysis would consider the environmental impacts over the vehicle's entire life cycle, from its construction through its operation and on to its eventual retirement at the junkyard." ..... < snip >
..... "Upon closer consideration, moving from petroleum-fueled vehicles to electric cars starts to appear tantamount to shifting from one brand of cigarettes to another," Zehner, a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, said. ..... < snip >
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Yes, I found the air of self-righteousness and superiority is often present in the attitude, articulation and presentation of such individuals.
I think that's true. Unthinking city-dwellers who work in air-conditioned offices come to assume that the incredible infrastructure that allows us such comfy lives is just there like trees, creeks, and the sky.
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