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> These three points affect anyone who lives near heavy automobile traffic. Just because it's an externality doesn't mean it doesn't exist! And the externaliti
by derleth 14y ago
> These three points affect anyone who lives near heavy automobile traffic. Just because it's an externality doesn't mean it doesn't exist!
And the externalities of electric cars matter quite a bit to the people who live next to coal-fired power plants.
- megablast 14y agoGood point, but it is a lot easier to get away from a power plant.
- ericd 14y agoMore concentrated, and more efficient, so it affects fewer people and creates less pollution overall. Additionally, we can power them with zero emissions power sources once we get there. People should really stop trotting out the coal power plant argument in trying to claim that this is somehow a relative weakness of EVs, because it's really not.