Impeach McConnell, Boehner, and Cantor Today: Un-Green uninformed Obama on Twitter claims highly polluting electric car batteries are 'clean energy'

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Un-Green uninformed Obama on Twitter claims highly polluting electric car batteries are 'clean energy'

Electric car batteries aren't even made in the US because of our environmental laws. They're made mainly in Communist China where most highly polluting 'rare earths' minerals are mined. Electric car batteries cannot be made without rare earths. Electric cars are more polluting than regular cars due to the batteries which regularly need to be discarded and new ones purchased.

(Study by Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, funded by UK gov. and car industry).

6/10/11, "Electric cars may not be so green after all, says British study," The Australian, Ben Webster

"ELECTRIC cars could produce higher emissions over their lifetimes than petrol equivalents because of the energy consumed in making their batteries, a study has found.

An electric car owner would have to drive at least 129,000km before producing a net saving in CO2. Many electric cars will not travel that far in their lifetime because they typically have a range of less than 145km on a single charge and are unsuitable for long trips. Even those driven 160,000km would save only about a tonne of CO2 over their lifetimes.

The British study, which is the first analysis of the full lifetime emissions of electric cars covering manufacturing, driving and disposal, undermines the case for tackling climate change by the rapid introduction of electric cars...

Many electric cars are expected to need a replacement battery after a few years. Once the emissions from producing the second battery are added in, the total CO2 from producing an electric car

rises to 12.6 tonnes,

compared with 5.6 tonnes for a petrol car.

Disposal also produces double the emissions because of the energy consumed in recovering and recycling metals in the battery. The study also took into account carbon emitted

to generate the grid electricity consumed."...

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"Rare Earth Metals," UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability

US environmental rules and wages make it too expensive to extract rare earths here. We opted out of the "race" for green jobs. Most rare earths come from Communist China now. Rare earth smelting plant in