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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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It is completely wrong,” Fatih Birol , Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), has stated. A high priority, says IEA’s Birol, is investment in across-the-board energy-related technology research and development and their placement into practice. “Electric cars will not save the climate.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

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billion in Department of Energy loans to develop new fuel-efficient vehicles, including the Volt. GM killed that car because of back room deals with oil companies, and now they expect us to believe that they are just so cutting edge now? Posted by: Joe | Apr 13, 2009 11:27:11 PM The government gets no tax money on electric vehicles.

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