Regardless of how "dirty" electricity is, the single biggest rebuttal to
these arguments, in my mind, is that it takes approximately 6kWh of
electricity to refine a gallon of gasoline.
The gas Smart car will go 36 miles on a gallon of gasoline, my Smart ED
will take approximately 9kWh to go 36 miles. So those "economists"
should be penalizing me only for the extra 3kWh. Of course the gas car
pollutes when they make the 6kWh and then it pollutes again during the
entire 36 mile drive...
--Rick
On 10/11/2015 05:37 AM, EVDL Administrator via EV wrote:
On 9 Oct 2015 at 0:17, brucedp5 via EV wrote:
A recent study by some economists determined that EVs, rather than getting tax
breaks, should be taxed at higher rates in the coal-dependent East and Midwest
for the indirect air pollution they cause.
I have some suspicions about who's paying those economists' salaries. :-(
You can "prove" whatever your paymaster wants, just by making the
appropriate assumptions and calculating from there.
This reminds me of the bought-and-paid-for studies that "proved" that the
EV1's lead batteries were worse for the environment than an ICEV (providing
that none of them was ever recycled), or the ones that "proved" much the
same argument about Prius batteries.
David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
EVDL Administrator
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