"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.
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."
[Michelle Malkin]
Like the compact fluorescent light bulb... required because of the ban on incandescent light bulb, but chock full of health and environmental hazards.
ReplyDeleteSee previous post re CFLs at:
ReplyDeletehttp://conservativeclippings.blogspot.com/2011/05/dangers-of-cfls-even-greater-than.html