Re: Electric vehicles releasing less carbon to operate.  Not so much, considering most electricity generation is <i>still</i> a combination a coal, oil, or natural gas.  And transforming energy from one form to another is lossy besides.  Oil to electricity to motion is one more transformation than oil to motion.<br><br>Solar and wind are intermittent, so you can't count on them; there are no power storage solutions good enough to fix them, and everything else is on the environmentalists' shit lists.  One suspects that these alternatives (nuclear, hydro, thermal...) are opposed less because of their environmental impact (hydro was championed by the greens for decades) but more because they are effective.<br><br>And, of course, it isn't as if the current golden boys of the greens are carbon neutral, either, since they're full of plastics and, in the case of wind, petroleum-based lubricants.