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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy and EV Modern Life

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The issue is: How do these impacts compare to the positive impacts and, in the case of renewable energy projects, how do they compare to fossil fuel alternatives? Wind and solar farms are alternatives to fossil fuel-fired power plants. And auto manufacturers are investing many billions of dollars in electric vehicles.

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What about the Pickens Plan?

Plugs and Cars

The good news about electricity as a transportation fuel for cars is finally breaking through to the mainstream. For reasons political and economic, cars and trucks and busses remained tethered to petroleum. And today natural gas is a critical fuel for electricity generation. But we find ourselves in 2008.

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