OK, I'll tell you what my point is: your numbers were wrong. I gave you the current numbers. And I stated that most electricity was generate by natural gas. Go reread my post.
Yes, electricity, especially in Florida, is mainly produced by fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are used to generate most of the electricity in the US. That is pretty clear. The point is that the total energy use by electric cars is much less than gas cars. Again, the energy use by electrics is less than gas cars since the generation, transmission, and use of electricity by electric motors is much more efficient than gas cars. Nothing is green. Virtually everything is manufactured using electricity generated from fossil fuels and requires natural resources mined from the ground. It is a matter of which technology uses less total energy. Buy an electric car or don't - nobody cares what you do.
You can stop talking about nuclear. It has no future in this country. And your comment about when electric cars make environmental sense is your opinion and most definitely not fact.
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Originally Posted by spd2918
I'm not sure what your point is, as sources give different percentages from different studies and time spans. All sources show natural gas as the main current source of electricity and most show coal as the second. Electric car champions never want to talk about that.
Electricity is mainly produced from fossil fuels, thus electric cars are mainly fossil fuel burners that are not green. Add to that the environmental cost of strip mining for battery materials and you have an argument that electric cars are more damaging than modern ICE cars.
My point about nuclear energy (again, in case people missed it):
Electric cars make environmental sense when this country realizes nuke power is the best option for power sources.
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