Let's talk electric vehicles for a minute.

I'm Peter Serefine with today's Liberty Minute.

Sure, electric vehicles produce fewer emissions than an internal combustion vehicle, but what about making the different cars?

Building a conventional gas car generates about six tons of CO2.

Producing an electric car with a range comparable to a gas engine, about 400 miles, generates over twenty-five tons of CO2.

So, you have to drive the electric vehicle about 180,000 miles before the electric vehicle actually cuts emissions.

What is the average life expectancy of a vehicle, you ask?  Well, it is about 180,000 miles.

So, if you really want to save the planet, consider a hybrid.  Its initial carbon footprint and operating emissions are between electric and gas cars.

Remember this the next time some politician tries to call an electric vehicle a zero-emissions car.

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