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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on May 06, 2023, 11:20:45 am
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WRITTEN BY I&I EDITORIAL BOARD ON MAY 5, 2023. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
Place Your Bets: How Long Before Eco-Nutters Start Attacking EVs?
ev chargingToday, you’re not allowed to say a bad word about electric cars. They’re planet savers, after all. Environmentalists tell us so.
But there will come a day — in the not-too-distant future — when the climate change fanatics will decide that EVs are planet killers, too.
We’ve seen this bait-and-switch tactic before. [emphasis, links added]
Back in 2007, energy producers pumped money into environmental groups to promote natural gas. The Sierra Club used the funds to mount a “Beyond Coal” campaign touting the benefits of gas.
Joe Romm, a climate advocate at the Center for American Progress, declared that natural gas “may be the single biggest game changer for climate action in the next two decades.”
https://climatechangedispatch.com/place-your-bets-how-long-before-eco-nutters-start-attacking-evs/