Reply #117: Sorry. That's not what energy experts say. [View All]

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Your link is to a company press release. Most power engineers, and scientists say the average efficiency of current power plants are at the mid 80s to 90s. Not to say we shouldn't try to get rid of coal burning and replace them over time, but to sacrifice the electric car over the issue of up-useage of coal burning plants is pure myopia. Pound for pound, a few hundred EPA regulated coal plants produces less greenhouse gasses than hundreds of millions of gas and deisel powered autos do.

I'll say it again. Oil refineries also use coal burning electric plants to make gasoline, lubricating oil and other petroleum products. Filter and muffler companies use coal burning plants to smelt the metal and manufacture their fiber filters. Refuse plants use coal burning plants to dispose of the used oil from all the autos they drain every 3000 miles, and the list goes on. None of which will be used with any pure plug in electric car. You want to talk about the up-useage of electric cars, then let's be fair and talk about the up-useage of ICE autos too.