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caraher

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10. There's no "but what we really need is this one thing" solution

Thu Jan 1, 2015, 09:46 AM

Jan 2015

We need everything.

I agree that hybrids/electrics can go a long way toward "decarbonizing" transportation. But transportation is just one important but by no means dominant piece of the puzzle, constituting less than 30% of our energy use. And where I live, electric cars aren't really a significant improvement, as our electricity comes from coal. We need to clean up the electricity supply AND adopt more EVs.

Here's a pretty nice overview of the energy picture for the US:

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