[Flyers999]

Here’s my uninformed opinion of using an EV for environmental reasons. Please, feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. ( I hope I am.)

When you use any electrical vehicle (EV), you are using energy powered by the grid which is powered by mostly fossil fuels. Only 12% of our electrical power stations use renewable sources (geothermal, solar, wind, biomass waste, biofuels and wood) the rest use fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum) with 8% nuclear. And virtually all of the new U.S. power stations that have come online in the past 20 years are natural gas. Most of the country’s natural gas supply is produced by fracking. The greenhouse gas footprint of fracked natural gas is actually worse than coal and oil because methane traps more heat in the atmosphere. Fracking also pollutes the fresh drinkable groundwater where it is produced. We might need that someday.

EVs do help densely populated cities—especially cities where air pollution is a problem, such as LA. But not in the Villages, where we are on a peninsula with the wind from the ocean/gulf continually blowing.

So wouldn’t the environment be better off with each of us using small individual quantities of fossil fuels to power our auto and heat our homes/stoves, rather than have these fuels run our power stations that convert the fossil fuels to electricity, which in turn, get converted back into heat or motion? To me it looks like a middleman doing an extra energy conversion. There has to be a loss whenever energy is converted from one format to another.

Thanks for listening.