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Originally Posted by collie1228
Dick, I agree we should all be as "green" as is practicable, but you really can't legitimately say using an electric cart is particularly "green". You have to plug it in, and 54% of U.S electricity is produced by coal plants. A typical (500 megawatt) coal plant burns 1.4 million tons of coal each year. There are about 600 U.S. coal plants. Coal pollutes when it is mined, transported to the power plant, stored, and burned. And it has done a job on my Adirondacks over the past 100 years, damaging both plants and animals, damage that is still happening, albeit less so today. So I'm not a big fan of the electricity industry any more than you are of gas powered golf carts.
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Collie,
I can't control what others do, but I can control what I do. Driving a gas cart only increases my carbon footprint, whereas an electric doesn't. That's MY point. 
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Dick
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