Kudos to the author for trying to set the record straight. As an EV enthusiasts who has tried to read up a lot about this stuff, it is depressing to see the sheer amount of propaganda and misinformation being spread about electric cars.<p>According to the fossil fuel fan club, the electricity going into your EV is somehow always from coal. Of course all the other electricity not used for electric cars is of course pure as newly fallen snow.<p>Of course they fail to mention that a lot of power is simply wasted at night anyway. E.g. in Ontario you could charge your EV at night without requiring any increase in electricity production.<p>Nor do they mention the fact that oil refining requires a huge amount of electricity. In fact it requires so much electricity, that you could have use that same electricity to drive an EV the same distance as gasoline car would drive with the gasoline refined using that electricity.<p>But really I think what it comes down to is that people like to lie to themselves. They like to invent little lies that will justify the actions they already made. They want to drive that gas-guzzler and so they look for fact that will support that decision.