re: #116 wrenchwench

If you have an electric car, and you charge it with electricity generated in a coal-burning plant, you have a coal-powered car.

I plan to freak out some electric bike owners by referring to them as “coal-powered”.

But that electricity can also come from Solar, Wind, Tidal, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Hydroelectric, Thermal, and other far less polluting sources. Even if the persons electric vehicle is powered by a coal fired plant economy of scale comes into play.

Using electricity from a coal fired large generation plant (at least in this country with the inadequate but better than nothing pollution restrictions prompted by acid rain) is most likely going to have a smaller personal carbon output/”footprint” than using a strictly fossil fueled vehicle.

Why mock them for their efforts and added expense not being a perfect solution to the problem when no true solution even exists to date? Every little bit helps us just a little, at least IMO.