Open Thread For Night Owls: Electric Cars Are Good For The Planet

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Wed, 01/29/2014 - 9:30pm

Will Oremus at Slate writes—Actually, Electric Cars Are Good for the Planet: Here’s a news flash, courtesy of tech blog the Verge: “Electric cars won’t save the planet.” The argument, based on a policy analysis from a civil engineering professor at North Carolina State University, hinges on two points. First, passenger vehicles account for only about 20 percent of U.S.

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