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Default I know how to deal with the expense of batteries for electric cars

Ed Pawlowski wrote:

> IMO, the hybrid and electric cars are not quite proven technology.
> That clean electric fuel often comes from dirty generating plants.
> The expensive batteries will have to be recycled to avoid
> contamination from the chemicals. Moving the greenhouse gasses from
> the car to a powerplant does not solve the problems, at least not yet.


Refreshing to hear someone say that. We have all this pollution
drifting over from coal burning electric plants in the midwest, then
people refer to electric cars as non-polluting. Just because smoke
doesn't come out of your electric outlets doesn't mean it's clean
energy, necessarily.

nancy