The Chevy Volt, The Next Big Hybrid, is getting a lot of buzz.
The Nissan Leaf, the first all electric plug-in auto is up next in the batting circle.
In the wake of BP's crude splooge in the Golf of Mexico, everyone is clamoring to dump their fossil fuel powered vehicles and jump on the electric car bandwagon.
But electric cars are just the latest cup covering the unavoidable fossil fuel pea in an elaborate environmental shell game.
OK, so you buy your electric car and free yourself from fossil fuels thus reducing your carbon footprint, slow Global Climate Change and make the world a better place. You can feel good about yourself and look disdainfully upon those gas-guzzling, JO Co, SUV driving bastards.
WRONG!
Where do you think electricity comes from? It's not transmitted through the ether to your home through unicorn horns and rainbows.
Almost 70% of electricity is generated by burning fossil fuels! All electric cars do is cause us to burn more coal to generate more electricity.
Sure, you can load up your recyclables in your electric car and brag about how you don't have to pay $50 to fill up your gas tank any more. "I just plug it in and recharge it!"
But now your electric bill has gone from a couple of hundred dollars a month to double that because your car is sucking on your electric tit all night long, drinking electricity generated by burning coal!
You can be all smug about driving a "zero-emissions" car that doesn't even have a tailpipe, but the local utility company's power plants spewed tons of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere to generate the electricity that powers your "zero-emission" vehicle.
The only way that electric vehicles make any sense is if we transition away from electricity generated by coal and natural gas to electricity generated by solar, wind, geothermal and tidal forces.
Until then, electric car buyers are just masturbating to images of Ed Begley, Jr. while continuing to kill the planet.
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