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Originally Posted by Nevyn
There are energy costs to making electric. But where should that electric go...directly into a car battery, or to power the lights and machinery at a refinery? Last time I checked, fewer conversions were better, right?  |
Yes, fewer conversions are better. There are indeed energy costs to making electricity. But there are also very large energy costs to making gasoline.
The energy required just to extract, refine, and deliver gasoline is sufficient, in itself, to drive an electric car about the same distance that a gas car could go on that gallon of gasoline.
Kinda makes the gasoline superfluous!