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Originally Posted by 12noon
For some reason they want to move over to electric powered cars,
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Because it's easier and cheaper to deal with pollution when it's all being generated in one place, i.e. at a power station rather than from tens of thousands of individual vehicles, and because our domestic electricity production is moving (slowly at the moment, but with increasing speed) towards low-carbon generation.
If you run a car on fossil fuel, then that car will always have a significant carbon footprint. If you run it on electricity, then the car's CO2 footprint can be reduced by generating the electricity from wind, wave, solar or nuclear power, or possibly by so-called 'clean coal' generation, assuming that can ever be made to work on a commercial scale.
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yet at the same time the adverts on TV are telling us to cut back on our use of electric.
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Because at the moment a lot of electricity used at home is wasted. There's a lot of room for improvement (turning off lights, not leaving things on standby, etc).