An increase in the relative amount of electric cars could increase the total amount of pollution, a professor from the University of Linköping is reporting today.
The reason? The electricity has to come from somewhere, and that somewhere may just be that massive black oven of a fossil fueled plant you've called all sorts of names as you've driven past in your new, green, electric car.
The thing that absolutely astounds me in all this is, they thought of this NOW? Anyone with an IQ above his or her shoe size knows that things don't just magically appear. "Ecological beef" isn't created out of thin air at your local butcher's. "Natural paper" isn't made out of willpower at your local stationary shop. A Toyota Prius* isn't composed of good will to all living things, love and fairy dust.
Unless you're standing in the middle of a field, during a thunder storm, with a lightning rod up your ass, chances are electricity isn't going to fall down from the sky either.
Everything has to come from somewhere. The same goes for thoughts, so start using what you've got in that head of yours.
The fact that this is somehow news to anyone is, to me, surely a sign that humanity is going down the crapper.
/JP
*I chose the Prius as it is, to many, the benchmark of so-called green cars. In reality, it's nowhere near, but that's another story for another time. For now, if you want to buy a green car, buy a small diesel.
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