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[b]EV wrote:[/b]
[quote]Since the article seems to be groping for straws, lets address them.
[quote]    *  Power plants produce far more SO2 than cars (especially old coal plants).
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I wasn't aware that Solar, Nuclear, Wind and Hydro plants produce SO2.  I also not the "especially old coal plants".  And these make up what percentage of the power production, exactly?  They shouldn't be phrasing it such that it seems like the power for the cars is always going to come from the worst case possible.
[quote]    * In areas where coal generates most of the power, PHEVs can produce more carbon than similar sized cars.
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Note the phrase "can produce", not "will produce".  So, what areas are these where it will produce more, instead of less?  Lets see the actual numbers.  And further, would the areas where less CO2 is produced more than balance the areas where more CO2 is produced?
[quote]    * PHEVs increase electricity demands, which increases coal mining, which is bad news.
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Or it could increase other forms of electricity.  Why is it assumed that everything is automatically going to come from coal?
[quote]    * PHEV batteries are expensive and need a lot of resources to create and recycle.[/quote]
The same can be said for gasoline refinement.  Either way, I've seen ideas for taking the used batteries from old cars and charging them at night and using the electricity during the day to ease peak power requirements.  Further, as others have said, large batteries are recycled due to the valuable materials that make it cheaper to recycle old batteries than to mine new materials.  Computer circuit boards contain more gold per ton than most gold ore in gold mines, hence the big push by people to recycle them.  Same issue here.

The organization writing this is just trolling.  Anyone can point out the flaws and "selective phrasings" in their logic.  And no, I don't believe it was written by the oil industry.[/quote]

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