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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/
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