I wish that more people realized that an electric car will likely NOT help them fight the dreaded global warming.
Why?
Because the electricity to recharge the batteries in an electric car, in many places, comes from coal fired power plants.
While the car itself is pollution free, if the energy needed to charge it up comes from a fossil fuel operated power plant, a good liberal has NOT done anything to save us from global warming and reduce greenhouse gases.
Actually, if we suddenly had millions of electric cars on the road, we would find ourselves far short of needed electric generating capacity.
The capacity which Obama wants to reduce in his zeal to fight global warming and take allegedly gross polluting power plants off line.
Liberals should pick another vehicle besides electric cars to make their case of what we can do to reduce greenhouse gases.
No one has mentioned that efficient power plants are always sited several hundred miles from where the energy is needed.
Or that half the energy produced is lost in the transmission lines.
Too many of the dams in California, for instance, which served both to even out wet-drought years, as well as to supply useful water for agriculture have been totally demolished.
And the very people who promoted that are frantically trying to figure out how to undo the damage without looking like total idiots.
Total criminal idiots, actually.