02-23-2012, 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Cmike2780
The problem is that there isn't a clear alternative & renewable enery source. Even doubling our Nuclear plants wouldn't really take that huge of a dent from our dependence on petroleum. Not only that, we keep using more energy, not less.
How are hybrids worst for the environment than a gas engine? It's still technically a gas engine.
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This. Also for electric cars, they may not be as clean as most people think because the electricity comes from dirty sources FOR NOW. That doesn't mean that this will always be the case. There's obviously a push to move towards renewable sources of energy for electricity production. As time passes and there are more technological innovations as well as cost reductions, renewable sources will become a much larger portion of where we get our electricity from. Whenever that does happen, electric cars will be far cleaner the gas powered cars.
The other thing you have to realize is that by the time electricity sources become more clean, we will need the technology for electric cars and a whole new infrastructure to adapt to them to be ready to go. If we start working on all of that now, it will save a lot of time later. You can't just wait 25, 50, 100, or how ever many years it takes for electricity to become more "green" and then be like "ok now that we took care of that let's start thinking about how we can use electric cars now."
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