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Environment & Energy

NNadir

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4. If you read the paper cited in one of my links, you will see that in New Jersey, an electric car is dirtier than...

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #3)

Sun Jun 1, 2025, 02:41 PM

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...an internal combustion engine run on pure gasoline. (My post contains graphics from the paper.)

A hybrid car is slightly better than a pure gasoline car, but a hybrid car - the type of car I drive - is still a dirty machine.

The person in the video is Australian. His country features some of the dirtiest electricity on Earth. An electric bus in Australia will run on coal, although he isn't talking necessarily about Australia.

It isn't perfect against "good." It's bad against worse.

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Oil Lobby's $88 million USD of Rotting Hydrogen Buses; Australian Video on the Oil Lobby's Scam. [View all] NNadir Sunday OP

"The speaker praises electric buses, but these are also indirectly - in most cases - fueled by fossil fuels." Bernardo de La Paz Sunday #1

I am not "ranting." I'm merely stating a fact, which is that most electricity on this planet, places like France... NNadir Sunday #2

No need to beat up on electric busses. Consider the alternative: internal combustion engine busses. Bernardo de La Paz Sunday #3

If you read the paper cited in one of my links, you will see that in New Jersey, an electric car is dirtier than... NNadir Sunday #4

That paper is based on current fossil component of electricity production Bernardo de La Paz Sunday #5

It seems every time we talk, I have to make this remark: "Is" is different that "could." NNadir Sunday #6

You don't want an energy transition to nuclear? I thought you did. Bernardo de La Paz Sunday #7