President Joe Biden touted electric vehicles as the solution to climate change again Tuesday night during his State of the Union address.
“We’re building 500,000 vehicle charging stations installed across the country by tens of thousands of IBEW workers,” Biden said, “and helping families save more than $1,000 a year with tax credits for the purchase of electric vehicles and energy-efficient appliances.”
Those tax credits, however, aren’t as green as they seem.
EVs Are a Green Illusion
The process to manufacture electric vehicles is so environmentally toxic between the mining and assembly that it takes years of driving before emissions are reduced, according to a deep dive by RealClear Investigations in October.
“The electric car’s biggest disadvantage on greenhouse gas emissions is the production of an EV battery, which requires energy-intensive mining and processing, and generates twice as much carbon emissions as the manufacture of an internal combustion engine,” RealClear reported. “This means that the EV starts off with a bigger carbon footprint than a gasoline-powered car when it rolls off the assembly line and takes time to catch up to a gasoline-powered car.”
Even then, the American power grid used to charge the car still relies primarily on fossil fuels. In other words, the car runs on coal.
Some studies have shown electric vehicles are even worse for the environment than gas-powered vehicles.
[READ: Studies Show The Electric Vehicles Democrats Insist You Buy Are Worse For The Environment And Lower Quality]
EVs Aren’t Cheap
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