A traffic jam in Beijing.
Al Gore must be upset. A new report on China’s electric cars by a research team at the University of Tennessee has found that China’s 100 million electric-powered scooters and cars may be worse for the environment than gas-powered vehicles.
Why? Because 90% of the electric power in China comes from coal – that energy source that environmentalists hate. Those millions of electric bikes and cars are powered by that abundant resource.
The UT researchers studied the environmental impact on the whole power chain. They write: “An implicit assumption has been that air quality and health impacts are lower for electric vehicles than for conventional vehicles. Our findings challenge that by comparing what is emitted by vehicle use to what people are actually exposed to. Prior studies have only examined environmental impacts by comparing emission factors or greenhouse gas emissions.”
One can only wonder if coal will be supplying the electricity for electric cars and scooters in the U.S. when we’re all forced to give up our gasoline-powered vehicles. Will wind turbines and solar panels provide the electricity for millions of these e-vehicles? It’s doubtful. Walking may become the new form of modern, environmentally friendly transportation for Americans if Lisa Jackson has her way.
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There are a lot of answers to get power besides nuclear, coal and oil. Tesla had the answer, look what our sneaky government is doing with HAARP, free energy is within our grasp and the government knows it, so do we. Cold fusion another source the government refuses to recognize. Don’t wait until we burn up our oil. It’s much more valuable than as a fuel.
This American people need to be more away of things like this. Obama has destroyed the coal industry and I don’t think wind and solar power will ever generate the kind of energy we need. He has also destroyed on oil industry, so we are more and more dependent on foreign oil. I can remember a time when USA was almost totally independent of any other country and now look at us. We aren’t even second rate, I think we are way down on the scale. Wake up America. Obama wants to make everyone dependent on the government and then we will have a dictator etc like so many other countries. Look at Hitler at first, the people loved him but then look what happened. I keep hearing about how smart he is, but to me he borders on stupidity. The o nly thing he is good at is being an orator.