Article on air-pollution

[TylerDurden]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9209597/Exhaust-fumes-are-twice-as-deadly-as-roads-study-claims.html

[cherimoya_kid]

This is why we need to be going to electric cars more quickly.

[Projectile Vomit]

Electric cars just move emissions from the tailpipe to the power plant. What we really need to do is drive less. Much less.

[ys]

not always.  hydro, solar, wind, and nuclear plants do not produce any air emissions.

[cherimoya_kid]

not always.  hydro, solar, wind, and nuclear plants do not produce any air emissions.

Exactly. 

The only people stupider than the oil supporters are people that oppose wind turbines because they are dangerous to birds, or because they are ugly.

[Projectile Vomit]

They don't in their day-to-day operations, but still cause pollution when they're being deigned and manufactured and later when they're being dismantled.

[ys]

true, if you want to be that anal about it.  might as well stop using internet because it causes air pollution too.

[cherimoya_kid]

They don't in their day-to-day operations, but still cause pollution when they're being deigned and manufactured and later when they're being dismantled.

You have to start somewhere.

[Alive]

Even if electric cars get electricity from coal the equivalent CO2 emissions are still half that of gas cars.

[blackrhino]

Since this is a paleo forum,it would be appropriate to do what the cavemen did,WALK!!