Electric cars do nothing but kid people on they are ‘helping the environment’ but this is a flat out lie.
The first thing is, exhaust. Correct, the car itself produces no exhaust fumes as it silently glides down the road, this is the very foundation of the lie. Whilst I admit that a car not producing exhaust fumes has to be a small improvement, the importance of that is blown way out of proportion to disguise the fact that the electric car is still an environment disaster.
I don’t believe there is a country on the planet that is able to produce electricity entirely from clean sources, say solar or wind harvesting. No. It’s still primarily burning fossil fuels with added nuclear. So this idea that Mr or Mrs Smug has, that their car is clean and wonderful, is just stupid and an appeasement to their guilt that they too are creating pollution.
Sure, Smugo, your car isn’t belching fumes, directly, out the back of it but somewhere a chimney at a power plant is churning out tons of harmful clouds into our air or some ushima/Chernobyl wannabe is creating an unholy waste product that we’ve been oh so clever in creating but not so good at disposing of. So all you have done is displace the mess, not dispose of it. No mess out the front of your house, it’s all in someone else’s back yard. Big slap on the back for you.
The car itself is still an ecological mess. Taking 7 gallons of oil to make just one tyre and that doesn’t count the further oil needed in the production process to manufacture the tyre, just the ingredients for the tyre alone. 28 gallons of oil to shoe your car plus 7 more to have a spare.
The chassis and body work soak up yet more oil and materials, again, the energy and oil to harvest and manipulate them are enormous. The cars exterior is smothered in oil based paint and lacquer, the cars interior is smothered in plastic (oil) and more furnishings that cost a ton of energy to produce.
It’s an Emperor’s new clothes thing. You’re kidding yourself that you’re somehow being responsible, that you’re not contributing to air pollution. It’s a lie. You are and you’re stupid to believe anything else.
The first thing is, exhaust. Correct, the car itself produces no exhaust fumes as it silently glides down the road, this is the very foundation of the lie. Whilst I admit that a car not producing exhaust fumes has to be a small improvement, the importance of that is blown way out of proportion to disguise the fact that the electric car is still an environment disaster.
I don’t believe there is a country on the planet that is able to produce electricity entirely from clean sources, say solar or wind harvesting. No. It’s still primarily burning fossil fuels with added nuclear. So this idea that Mr or Mrs Smug has, that their car is clean and wonderful, is just stupid and an appeasement to their guilt that they too are creating pollution.
Sure, Smugo, your car isn’t belching fumes, directly, out the back of it but somewhere a chimney at a power plant is churning out tons of harmful clouds into our air or some ushima/Chernobyl wannabe is creating an unholy waste product that we’ve been oh so clever in creating but not so good at disposing of. So all you have done is displace the mess, not dispose of it. No mess out the front of your house, it’s all in someone else’s back yard. Big slap on the back for you.
The car itself is still an ecological mess. Taking 7 gallons of oil to make just one tyre and that doesn’t count the further oil needed in the production process to manufacture the tyre, just the ingredients for the tyre alone. 28 gallons of oil to shoe your car plus 7 more to have a spare.
The chassis and body work soak up yet more oil and materials, again, the energy and oil to harvest and manipulate them are enormous. The cars exterior is smothered in oil based paint and lacquer, the cars interior is smothered in plastic (oil) and more furnishings that cost a ton of energy to produce.
It’s an Emperor’s new clothes thing. You’re kidding yourself that you’re somehow being responsible, that you’re not contributing to air pollution. It’s a lie. You are and you’re stupid to believe anything else.