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As for electric cars, what are you going to plug them into? A windmill? A solar cell? I can see it now, "Sorry boss, I can't make it into work today. There wasn't much wind last night and the sun hasn't been up long enough to charge my car." After all, if we follow the demands of the greenies we won't be allowed any other energy sources. Right now the electric cars are largely powered by coal fired electric plants. Sounds pretty "green" to me.


Well, Larry, for all your sarcasm, yes. As a matter of fact I have seen a factor in Italy that powers charging stations quite successfully for their employees using solar panels over parts of their employee parking lot and on the roof of their plant. Also, using those unreliable panels, they generate enough power to offset the power from the grid to run large machining centers for making high precision grinding machines (the company is Meccanica Nova in Bologna, Italy for reference) Pretty sure that if they can power large CNC machining centers that charging an EV shouldn't be too challenging. Further, given that most wind turbines actually run quite a bit at night due to the fact that winds are often stronger after sunset, a standard 3.5MW wind turbine could charge quite a few cars.
Lastly, I know I might as well explain this to the wall for all the good it will do, please tell me how much fuel and emissions a normal gas or diesel engine emits while stuck in traffic in pretty much any large city, or medium city? How much do they emit coasting to a stop? Or creeping at 10 mph in traffic? I can tell you how much an EV uses, ZILCH. An EV shuts down all but enough to power a very low voltage monitoring system for the foot pedal and auxiliaries like the car stereo, navigation, etc... In stop and go traffic, EV's recover energy due to regenerative breaking, rather than pissing it away in heat lost to brake pads (during which time and ICE is still burning fuel). Yes, most EV's will initially use electricity from coal fired power plants, but the emissions for generating that power come mostly at night when plants are idling due to reduced load, and those emissions are regulated via a single or a few exhaust stacks that are much more efficient at regulating emissions than thousands of tailpipes. And, if we move to nuclear, or supplement with wind or solar, then the reliance on coal drops, so yeah, actually Larry, sounds greener than someone driving a 8 year old Chrysler minivan or a standard F150 or Suburban in rush hour traffic. A heck of a lot more....

By the way, your allusion to "the greenies" shutting off all other forms of fuel is a BS argument. That is what some hardline greens want, but most mainstream people who look at this are much more pragmatic about coal, gas and nuke. Shoot, there are people on the hard right that want equally ridiculous things, but I don't ascribe their nutjob demands and beliefs to the entire conservative population. But, using scare tactics seems to be an effective debate tactic, scare everyone into believing that the evil green Nazis are going to make us move back to the Stone Age.....