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Originally Posted by RobertSmalls
People need to know the actual environmental impact of the items they choose to buy, so they can decide whether it's greener to spend $15000 on an electric mower + solar thermal collectors + new appliances + insulation for the house + beer, or if getting the Leaf over the 50mpg Prius is the better choice.
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I agree completely! the thing with the study on co2 and electric cars is that is it pretty much a worst case co2 count for an electric car, our utility produces 10% or more of it's electricity by wind, I think 50% or 60% is still coal and they sell a option for wind power offsets that say they are going to produce 100% of what you use by wind, above the normal 10% that do already and as I understand the law that 10% that they produce is required by law by our state and no part of that can count towards the offsets that I buy.
While I'm at my parents, my electric car is charged with 100% solar and wind from their home grown electricity, so at those times that works case co2 output does not even come in to play.