Quote Originally Posted by tommeke_B View Post
Didn't the Netherlands just started using new coal plants to make electricity? I lately read some article that claimed electric cars to be at least as polluting as a petrol car (for example they compared a Tesla with Volvo V60). And that's just the driving part. Apparently the production of a electric car pollutes around twice as much as the production of an average petrol car. If you know that the production of an average new car pollutes as much as 14 tonne CO2 (more for the bigger cars), and let's say average emission for a new petrol car is 125g/km. Then theoretically you drive 112 000km before you polluted as much by driving as by the manufacturing of the car. I know many people buy a new car earlier than they reach that amount of kms, and many governments are supporting it by their tax rules. So actually the governments are only supporting the economy, wile making the environmentalists believe it's a good thing they do... IF governments want to do something for the environment, they would tackle the industry (not just car industry, all industry), but that would only work in a good way if the same rules are being applied all over the world at the same time, and it's not going to happen.
You are not wrong... Power needs to come from other sources than coal before it has any environmental impact.

All those muppets who write zero emissions on their cars are of course right for their specific little cluster but the emissions still happen somewhere... Just not where they are.

Nuclear would be the obvious solution if people stopped being so stupid and scared of it and we were allowed to do some serious R&D on reactors and fuel management...