Not exactly true, you can burn natural gas very efficiently at a power plant and coal can be made relatively efficient compared to say gasoline. Power plants ca

Not exactly true, you can burn natural gas very efficiently at a power plant and coal can be made relatively efficient compared to say gasoline. Power plants can have very extensive emissions controls maintained by dedicated staff as well. Going electric decouples fuel use from power use allowing your vehicle to run off whatever fuel source is available even garbage [1]. Power generation can transition to renewables without replacing existing vehicles. With enough batteries in circulation recycling turns into a circular economy with batteries being high grade ore. Electric vehicles allow energy independence because of fuel agility even if emissions are no better, but because of the agility allows less painful transitions to better energy sources. [1] https://pinellas.gov/waste-to-energy-facility/ https://pinellas.gov/waste-to-energy-facility/