Stating the obvious.

Ethanol from food crops has been shown to create more pollution and higher food prices as well as the destruction of wildlife habitats, the call for biodiesel fuels ahs sparked the destruction of rainforests to grow palm oil, and now this:
Plug-in cars could actually increase air pollution

That's because a plug-in's lower tailpipe emissions may be offset by smokestack emissions from the utility generating plants supplying electricity to recharge the big batteries that allow plug-ins to run up to 40 miles without kicking on their gasoline engines. Plug-ins, called PHEVs, are partly powered, in effect, by the fuel used to generate the electricity.

This is a look at the Emperor's new clothes (or lack there of) that was--or should have been--obvious from the start.

Ain’t nothing free in this world, baby, and the more we screw around with the natural systems looking for solutions that aren’t needed because nature takes care of her own in ways far more complex than we mere mortals are as yet able to understand, the more we are going to learn harsh lesson after harsh lesson.

Biodiesel, the great rainforest killer
Biodiesel - the most destructive project on Earth

Ethanol Demand Threatens Food Prices
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