Electric Vehicles: Stop With the Inanities!

So we have this inspiring and informative bit of news about large EVs coming into their own. In this case they are starting to use all electric buses:

http://www.zeitnews.org/applied-sciences/transportation/electric-bus-goes-700-miles-without-recharging

Of course, this almost invariably attracts silly and poorly thought out comments like this:

"So was it coal that supplied the electricity or natural gas?? Hmm.."


Ahhhh, the understated brilliance and savvy... Umm; no, not really!

I wish people would use their heads on the whole, 'what supplied the energy' question!

For one thing, NOT ONE of these careless thinkers has considered the fact that having more electric vehicles on the road IMPROVES the air quality AND reduces noise pollution in high population density areas where much traffic (and thus emissions) is present.

Second, they NEGLECT the math on comparing 'carbon footprints' and power generation efficiency.

Finally, they refuse to acknowledge that using renewables at centralized power generation facilities is an ongoing effort. That even coal and natural gas is cleaner (not clean enough, but the interests along the power production chain including utilities are grudgingly working on it) AND that nuclear, despite all the scaremongering and poor planning is not quite off the table yet.