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So what’s the big deal with electric vehicles, besides Leonardo Di Caprio showing up to the red carpet in a hybrid before the release of his documentary, ‘The 11^th Hour’ (which had me sobbing amidst a panic attack, telling my boyfriend to shut the TV off before I literally died of sadness)?

 

Well, for awhile, electric vehicles seemed to be the Holy Grail.  Aaaaand then they were all bought back and smashed to pieces. I won’t get into the uh… ‘politics’ behind that.  Now that they’re making a comeback, we ask, well, what’s so good about them? After all, electric power generating plants are mostly powered by coal and extremely carbon intensive. In fact, the best electric vehicle options out there still emit at least half as much carbon into the atmosphere as their fuel-consuming counterparts once the generation of electricity is included. Bummer. Bum. ER.

           All hope is not lost though! Electric cars are still the best option foreseeable, because aside from hydrogen, which takes a lot more energy to produce than use making its use futile, it is the only carbon-free carrier. That is of MASSIVE importance in our carbonizing world. As in… life or death important. How can we produce electricity for electric cars with no carbon emissions? How about if all electric power generating plants relied on solar, wind, wave, geothermal and other naturally occurring energy sources? Woohoo problem solved. We just need to tap into the energy that surrounds us and guide it into our cars! THEN electric cars really would be the Holy Grail.  And why aren’t we doing this? Because of politics and  greed. There’s too much at stake, too much MONEY at stake for too many people, and they would rather die with fistfuls of cash and a mansion in Bali as the Earth fries, floods, and dies.

            Still not convinced? I will be posting the pros and cons of alternative fuels following this post, starting with Ethanol, the biofuel surrounded by the biggest lie of all alternative. No really. The potential results of relying on this fuel are downright horrifying.

-Alexandra Bwye-

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