Utah's National Park Electric Corridor.

Johno02 wrote:
Just to start, I am fully in favor of both wind and solar power. However, it would be interesting to see some figures considering how much petroleum based, pollution-causing fuels are used to generate the clean electricity to run pollution-free electric vehicles.

Good morning. From what I can see or read on readily available numbers is that in most but not all the world more and more energy is coming from renewables or cleaner sources of power. I see you are from the US so I took a quick look at a table I found and it seems that coal use seems to drop just a little over 1 percent per year there. I thin it is around 33 percent there. Not too many years back it was north of 50 percent. I don't know much about CO2 levels but I know when I am standing on a sidewalk at a stop light and the stench of diesel and gas fumes is prominent. That can't be good for the health. EV's don't emit those fumes. If the power still comes from a fossil fuel source it is probably better controlled and regulated than a 1996 Volkswagen Jettas tail pipe. Many countries produce very little power through fossil fuel sources and most countries that do are reducing the amount of air pollution that they produce. Those that don't, well, can't do much about them. We need to work on our problems at home first. No easy answers, one step at a time.

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