Living Like Ed - (Page 67) Aren’t You Just Moving the Pollution to the Power Plant? Of course, not everyone has a solar power system that can charge their electric car. Most people purchase their electricity from their utility company. Naysayers will tell you that electric cars just shift the pollution from a car’s tailpipe to an electricity-generating power plant’s smokestack, but here again I think the upside far outweighs any downside, and I’ll explain why. There are three reasons you’re not just moving the same pollution to the power plant: 1. YOU’RE MAKING USE OF OFF-PEAK CHARGING, WHICH IS HIGHLY EFFICIENT AND WHICH CREATES NO NEW POLLUTION. When you’re charging an electric car, you’re making use of an in- 67 2: transportation credible inefficiency that none of the naysayers talk about. Anybody who knows anything about power generation—talk to the people who run Southern California Edison, the Department of Water and Power, Duke Power—will tell you the same thing. All big power plants have excess capac- gasoline for the rest of your life. That’s what it’s like when you charge your electric car with
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