One of the worst BLACK IDEAS PAINTED GREEN is the proposition of all electric cars or plug-in hybrids. The proponents talk about how we could use little or no oil if we just plugged our cars in at night and charged their batteries at home. If you don't drive too far, the gasoline engine in the hybrid might never be needed during the day, and think about how clean the air would be. But the electricity doesn't appear by magic. It'd made from dirty coal or nuclear power for the most part. So when you charge batteries with grid electricity, the toxins are moved from the tailpipe to the power plant. What's worse is that nighttime charging makes a market for otherwise unmarketable, expensive, nighttime coal or nuclear power. The only exception to this otherwise awful scenario is when you generate your own power cleanly from alcohol and use it to charge your electric or alcohol-powered hybrid car batteries and heat your home at the same time. Solar electric panels are useless for charging your car at night, and even if you put solar electricity into the grid during the day, it wouldn't change the fact that nighttime plug-ins woud make a market for dirty power after dark. David Blume Alcohol Can Be a Gas Fueling An Ethanol Revolution for the 21st century
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