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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
Electric cars don't use any oil; foreign or domestic. And, we can produce electricity from the wind, the sun, the ocean, from falling water, and from biomass. Biomass like methane from sewage and farm waste can also be used just like CNG.
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Fossil fuels produce 2/3 the electricity the world uses each year. Out of all the CO2 pumped into the atmosphere by fossil fuels, ~50% is generated from electricity production. Unless the electricity used to charge the EV comes directly from a renewable source, it does use fossil fuels in some way. And even if a solar panel at your house charged the car, electricity from fossil fuels was used to design, produce, and transport the solar panels as well as the car. Everything on the market has a connection to fossil fuels in some way.
And while renewable energy as an electricity source has grown significantly in past decades, natural gas has grown at the same pace. The world is using more and more energy, requiring more and more of each source. If you look at the EIA projections for the next 30 years, natural gas and renewable grow at the same rate, and coal continues to grow as well.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/Dow...r-3-Energy.pdf