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Search results for "MIT Study Finds Gas Cars Aren't Secretly Better For The Planet Than EVs"

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Facebook posts stated on February 25, 2023 in a Facebook post:
Photo of electric charging station “powered by diesel generator” is emblematic of the electric vehicle movement.
By Jeff Cercone• February 28, 2023
Erick Erickson stated on January 27, 2023 in a video:
“Right now, driving 100 miles in an electric vehicle is more expensive than driving an internal combustion engine car.”
By Andy Nguyen• February 14, 2023
Debbie Lesko stated on August 30, 2022 in a tweet:
Electric vehicles are unaffordable because “the average cost of replacing an electric vehicle battery is over $10,000, while the average cost of replacing the battery of a gas-powered car is $100 to $200.”
By Haley Tenore• October 19, 2022
Facebook posts stated on January 04, 2022 in a post:
Electric vehicles would not have fared well in the Virginia snowstorm traffic jam.
By Jeff Cercone• January 7, 2022
Mike Rogers stated on October 14, 2024 in a debate:
“About 400,000 manufacturing jobs in the state of Michigan will go away with EV mandates.”
By Caleb McCullough• October 18, 2024
Instagram posts stated on October 20, 2022 in a video:
"When electric cars get in accidents, they explode, they catch fire very very badly because of the lithium batteries.”
By Kristin Hugo• October 25, 2022
Barack Obama stated on October 07, 2008 in a debate in Nashville, Tenn.:
"Oil companies ...currently have 68-million acres that they're not using."
By Robert Farley• October 7, 2008
Instagram posts stated on June 09, 2022 in an Instagram post:
Electric cars in California are not sustainable as only 10% of their batteries are recyclable and the state can’t recycle them.
By Andy Nguyen• August 11, 2022
Facebook posts stated on November 27, 2021 in a post:
Electric vehicles are more likely to fail in traffic jams.
By Monique Curet• December 9, 2021
George Will stated on May 11, 2014 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":
The incandescent light bulb "has no effect whatever on the planet."     
By Jon Greenberg• May 11, 2014
Suburban Virginia Republican Coalition stated on April 30, 2022 in a seminar.:
“CO2 is not a pollutant.”
By Warren Fiske• May 12, 2022
Jim Justice stated on June 10, 2019 in a press conference:
China today is "burning seven to eight times the amount of coal that we’re burning in the United States."
By Minh Do• December 4, 2019
Barack Obama stated on May 13, 2008 in a Q&A in Cape Girardeau, Mo.:
A gas tax holiday is a gimmick that "every economist says will just go into the pockets of the oil companies."
By Alexander Lane• May 21, 2008
Facebook posts stated on April 14, 2019 in a Facebook post:
"When you pull up to the gas pump to fill up your car, get your cell phone and search for Bluetooth devices. If a sequence of letters and numbers show up don’t pay at the pump. One of the pumps has a credit card skimmer inside of it. All of these skimmers run on bluetooth."
By Cade Moisey, Patrick Orsagos, Mary Alice Truitt, Davis Versprille• May 17, 2019
Facebook posts stated on May 16, 2022 in a Facebook post:
Studies show plastics can help combat climate change.
By Samantha Putterman• May 26, 2022
Facebook posts stated on July 13, 2021 in a Facebook post:
General Motors “admits the 'clean' energy used to charge electric cars comes from coal, 95% coal, to be exact."
By Tom Kertscher• July 29, 2021
Viral image stated on April 29, 2021 in a Facebook post:
"Manufacturing the battery for one electric car produces the same amount of carbon dioxide as running a petrol car for eight years."
By Andy Nguyen• May 11, 2021
League of Conservation Voters stated on November 28, 2022 in a statement on a website:
Herschel Walker “is heavily funded by the oil and gas industry, raking in more than $140,000 in donations from Big Oil and other energy interests."
By Amy Sherman• December 1, 2022
Instagram posts stated on July 10, 2022 in an Instagram post:
"If every person on earth just recycled, stopped using plastic straws, and drove an electric car, 100 corporations would still produce 70% of total global emissions."
By Ellie Borst• July 22, 2022
Barack Obama stated on March 19, 2009 in remaks made at an electric car testing center:
"The 1908 Model T earned better gas mileage than a typical SUV sold in 2008."
By Angie Drobnic Holan• March 19, 2009

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By Matthew Crowley, Louis Jacobson• October 11, 2023

What's the ‘zero emissions’ break-even point for electric cars? Hard to tell.

By Kristin Hugo• December 6, 2022

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By Matthew Crowley, Tom Kertscher• May 1, 2023

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