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Originally Posted by matbl
Smoke stacks? Smart countries produce their electricity in other ways...
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In the USA, the majority of electricity is produced by coal and natural gas. Coal and natural gas are carbon-based fuels. Burning carbon-based fuels produces carbon-based exhaust by-products such as CO2. Producing electricity using carbon-based fuels moves the production of carbon-based exhaust by-products from the tail pipe of a car (EVs don't have an exhaust pipe) to the exhaust pipes of the coal and natural gas electrical generation plants; smoke stacks are slang for electrical generation plants exhaust pipes.
Generally cities do not have electrical generation plants in their city-centers where public transportation is operated (or EVs are driven). In other words, it is a false positive that EVs don't create air pollution; it is just created somewhere else.
Smart countries that aren't full of a bunch of liberals could safely produce electricity by nuclear power without any air pollution. But that's a different Forum...
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