Rick Scott & His Senate Friends Introduce The DIRTY CAR EV Act
Act to require the Comptroller General of the United States, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to conduct a study on the true carbon footprint of electric vehicles and research the ramifications of widespread electric vehicle usage on the country’s electrical grids.
In that announcement, Scott said, “The Biden administration continues to push the use of electric vehicles by forcing the automotive industry to shift away from the use of fossil fuels. We need clear data on what impacts this will have on American families and our environment. There is ample evidence to suggest that EVs are not as clean as people are being led to believe and folks deserve to know the truth.
John Barrasso added some typical reactionary thunder of his own. “The Biden administration wants to force Americans into expensive electric vehicles without telling them the whole story. Huge amounts of mined raw materials go into each electric vehicle. This legislation will make sure that when it comes to the environmental impacts, electric vehicles don’t get a free ride as they do today. Washington should ensure a level playing field and preserve consumer choice.
“Over its lifetime — from manufacturing to operation to disposal — the average new battery electric vehicle produces more than 50 percent less global warming pollution than a comparable gasoline or diesel vehicle.
Comparing the average gasoline-powered sedan to the average EV with a 300-mile range battery, UCS found the EV reduces total lifetime emissions by 52%. An EV pickup truck reduces lifetime emissions 57% compared with the average gasoline pickup.There is a great hullabaloo going on today about the horrors of mining the raw materials needed to make batteries for electric cars.
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