Comments on: New Study Shows $56 Billion in Hidden Health Damage from Autos http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/10/19/hidden-health-cost/ Your daily source for national transportation policy news and analysis. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mattotoole http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/10/19/hidden-health-cost/comment-page-1/#comment-87241 mattotoole Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:23:14 +0000 http://dc.streetsblog.org/?p=38911#comment-87241 If none of the benefits of motor vehicles were considered, they'd be our biggest public health problem for sure! We do need to look at the bigger emissions picture for electric cars. East coast = mostly coal = dirtier. West coast = natural gas, hydro, nuclear = cleaner. (Compared to gasoline.) Ultimately we want renewable sources, but the point is that if we switched all the cars in CA to electricity tomorrow, we'd be better off than we are now. In the East, not so much. If none of the benefits of motor vehicles were considered, they’d be our biggest public health problem for sure!

We do need to look at the bigger emissions picture for electric cars. East coast = mostly coal = dirtier. West coast = natural gas, hydro, nuclear = cleaner. (Compared to gasoline.) Ultimately we want renewable sources, but the point is that if we switched all the cars in CA to electricity tomorrow, we’d be better off than we are now. In the East, not so much.

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