I’m pretty conservative compared to most HN posters and can see the immediate benefits of electric cars. Older conservatives drive me crazy, the FUD makes them

I’m pretty conservative compared to most HN posters and can see the immediate benefits of electric cars. Older conservatives drive me crazy, the FUD makes them seem really stupid. My uncle (and a friend of mine in his 50s) is constantly posting stuff about how much pollution EVs cause and I’m confused because the guy lives in LA. “Didn’t you live through smog? Don’t you think even a coal power plant with million dollar scrubbers producing your cars fuel is going to be cleaner than your combustion engine?” My line of thinking is, even if EVs DID create more pollution like he seems to think, it’d be better for the entire population of LA or any other city that the power be generated away from the city in a power plant and not from a million tiny poison spewing vehicles in LA! He just tells me I “need to do the research” and it annoys the crap out of me. For cities with pollution problems it’s so obvious that EVs are a win it hurts.