Definitely. Natural gas burns cleaner than coal, and even the dirtiest coal power plant is still cleaner than an internal combustion engine. Internal combustion

Definitely. Natural gas burns cleaner than coal, and even the dirtiest coal power plant is still cleaner than an internal combustion engine. Internal combustion engines are extremely inefficient. Even felt the tailpipe of a car with a running engine? (Don't!) It's hot. That's all wasted energy. Most of the energy used by a car goes into producing wasted heat (power plants are much better at winning back useful energy from that heat). Most of the rest of the energy used by a car goes into moving the weight of the car itself. Only a tiny part goes into moving the actual occupants of the car. That's why even electric cars are still wasteful: they're still too big and heavy and moving their own weight around. Bikes or mass transit are far more efficient. But EVs are still more efficient than ICE vehicles, even if the energy they use is dirty.