Yes, it is true that the carbon footprint on a Tesla right now is just as shitty as on a gas automobile. What the article overlooks, however, is that it costs e

Yes, it is true that the carbon footprint on a Tesla right now is just as shitty as on a gas automobile. What the article overlooks, however, is that it costs extraordinary amounts of MONEY to pull carbon out of the ground (whether in the form of gas, coal, or whatever else) and pump it in the air... we just don't have any better solutions yet. This means it is likely civilization will eventually migrate to cheaper ways of generating energy without the expense of pulling carbon reservoirs out of the ground. Even if most electricity is currently generated by burning carbon sources, this won't always be the case, and electric cars will eventually be decoupled from fossil fuel sources.