Are electric cars cleaner than gas powered cars?
http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/30-seconds-to-know/what-does-buy-rumor-sell-news-mean-n86931
Are they?
I am not certain but I will bet that this tidy little misinfomercial was paid for by the oil companies.
Excerpt:
The Al/air battery system can generate enough energy and power for driving ranges and acceleration similar to gasoline powered cars...the cost of aluminium as an anode can be as low as US$ 1.1/kg as long as the reaction product is recycled.
Aluminium–air battery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium%E2%80%93air_battery
As for rare earth minerals this aluminum-air battery negates the need for the most costly rare earth minerals and drives 100 miles per recyclable diode... So you replace the diode every 100 miles and you car runs on water. You drop off the used diodes to be recycled.
What other cost effective innovative technologies are being squelched by these big oil and coal misinfomercials?
Lithium would not be needed if we used aluminum-air batteries.
Due to dirty oil and coal misinfomercials how far back will this push innovative clean technology alternatives?
And conventional cars also use mass amounts of rare earth minerals also..
And lighter cars and trucks cause less wear and tear on U.S. roadways.
How much cleaner is electricity?
Well if the subsidies went to clean energy rather than to coal and gas than much more if not most of our electricity would be being produced by clean and renewable sources.
The time is now for alternative energy: can America go 100% renewable?
http://underthecblog.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/the-time-is-now-for-alternative-energy-can-america-go-100-renewable/
Going "All The Way" With Renewable Energy?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2011/01/110117-100-percent-renewable-energy/
And is gas cleaner? Let's consider the overall cost not just the costs the energy companies want to add to the ledger while neglecting other costs..
Like these costs.
Tar sands fires that they have not been able to put out for years in some cases.
Tar sands oil: A losing alternative to conventional oil
http://fresh-energy.org/2012/10/tar-sands-oil-a-losing-alternative-to-conventional-oil/
Shall we go back to buying Middle East oil and what is the long term cost of that? And what happens when the earth runs out of oil altogether?
TAR SANDS OIL SPILLS
WILDLIFE POPULATIONS
DEFORMITIES TO AQUATIC LIFE
THREATS TO HUMAN HEALTH
Coal companies pay millions to accuse President Obama of having a war on coal and this blew up in their face.
'War On Coal' Campaign Against Obama Has Failed, Coal Lobby Concedes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/war-on-coal-campaign-failure_n_3422524.html
The coal companies are taking middle class tax payer subsidies and using them to spread misinformation and perpetuate their dirty pollution.
How much is that costing us? Is this coal cheaper than clean energy?
Spill spews tons of coal ash into North Carolina river
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/09/us/north-carolina-coal-ash-spill/
If our middle class taxes were not given to big polluters it would fund many cleaner electric energy plants that can sustain us perpetually into the future and they are renewable. That is unless we run out of wind and sun and sea water etc... And what of the global climate change? Gas powered cars wreck the environment .
So the same method used to prop up dirty oil is also used to prop up dirty coal and the oil industry has the gall to call coal dirty?
List of oil spills
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_spills
And how many spills are not listed here?
Electric cars are clean and cheaper to manufacture and in time this cost will radically come down.
Is gas cheaper than coal? No, they are both exploiting the US taxpayers. The same arguments that big dirty oil uses against big dirty coal applies also to big dirty oil...
They are also talking abut hybrid cars not pure electric cars. Hybrid cars also have gasoline engines. Compare this to purely electric cars and suddenly the pollution over the lifetime of the car drastically is reduced.
So the play on words 'electric' and 'hybrid' are being employed to deceive...
See a problem with oil companies owning the news?
After 25 years, Exxon Valdez oil spill hasn't ended
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/23/opinion/holleman-exxon-valdez-anniversary/
Excerpt:
This happened 25 years ago, so we might note the anniversary as we do any other historical event. That, however, would imply that the oil spill is over. It's not, and likely never will be.
The sound's coastal ecosystem is permanently damaged. Thousands of gallons of Exxon Valdez oil still pollute the beaches; this oil is still toxic and still hurting the ecosystem near the shore.
When we factor in that these oil spills do permanent damage to the environment. HOW COSTLY is this when we factor that into the conventional/hybrid context?
Oil companies pointing the finger at big coal and say, see, they are dirty. Big oils and their multitudes of spills reveal they are just as if not more caustic to the environment.
And what of the arsenic, lead and other harmful byproducts of oil refinement?
Dirty Substance From California’s Oil Refineries Burned Overseas
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/10/01/dirty-substance-from-californias-oil-refineries-burned-overseas/
An now we ask ourselves is coal dirtier than oil?
The answer is oil is dirtier than coal...
Dirty Substance From California’s Oil Refineries Burned Overseas
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/10/01/dirty-substance-from-californias-oil-refineries-burned-overseas/
Excerpt:
One wouldn't know about it unless they lived near it, like Marilyn Bardet of Benicia. She said fine black dust settles on everything, from cars to windowsills. It’s called petroleum coke, or petcoke for short, a byproduct of the oil refining industry. It’s dirtier than coal.
“It’s a dirty secret, it’s a really dirty secret,” said Greg Karras, a senior scientist with Communites for a Better Environment.
Since the state and the federal governments consider petcoke a byproduct, not a waste, California’s strict emissions law does not apply. “It does not account for petroleum coke,” said Karras.
Comment:
Is the cost to the environment figured into the Conventional/Hybred cost comparison here? NO...
Excerpt:
Refineries can produce as much of it (petcoke) as they want. But state and federal regulations for burning it are really strict because it’s so dirty. That makes it hard to sell in the U.S.
Karras predicts exports are just going to increase. “This is a problem at the state level, this is a problem at the federal level, this is a problem at the global level,” he said.
For instance, Valero is lobbying to bring in more dirty crude to the Bay Area by rail that will produce more petcoke.
