ELECTRIC cars could produce higher emissions over their lifetimes than petrol equivalents because of the energy consumed in making their batteries, a study has found.The article doesn't even mention the environmental costs of battery disposal.An electric car owner would have to drive at least 129,000km before producing a net saving in CO2. Many electric cars will not travel that far in their lifetime because they typically have a range of less than 145km on a single charge and are unsuitable for long trips. Even those driven 160,000km would save only about a tonne of CO2 over their lifetimes.
The British study, which is the first analysis of the full lifetime emissions of electric cars covering manufacturing, driving and disposal, undermines the case for tackling climate change by the rapid introduction of electric cars.
But hey, if it keeps Government Motors afloat it must be good. Right?
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All these brilliant global warming scientists...they can see a 1 degree change in the weather over the last century, they can link it to one and only one variable out of the millions in the environment: CO2. Not only that, but the thousands of scientists all put their heads together and come up with a non-scientific solution: regulation and taxes.
Yet, when faced with the cold hard numbers, they completely miss the environmental cost of billions of tons of batteries, they are oblivious to net energy expense of burning corn in automobiles, are unconcerned with the enormous footprint of millions of solar/wind farms, and completely clueless to the centuries of poverty caused by command and control economies.
I conclude one thing from this: These are not scientists, they are politicians pretending to be scientists.
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