5 Reasons Why “Green” Cars Don’t Help The Environment [Commentary]

We're constantly hearing how "green cars" are saving the environment as they depend much less than a conventional car. Well, that's a load of carbon, according to some.

Environmental economist Bjourn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, advises on how "environmentally-friendly" these green cars are....not!

Here are 5 reasons why "green" cars are really not helping out the environment and why I think that the federal government should leave our Wyoming coal and crude oil alone.

1. More than 1/3 of the lifetime CO2 emissions from and electric car comes from the energy used to make the car itself. (Especially the battery).
2. Lithium mining is NOT a green activity.
3. When an electric car rolls off the assembly line, it has ALREADY been responsible for 25,000 lbs of CO2 emissions. A regular car is only responsible for 16,000 lbs of CO2 emissions.
4. When you "plug in" the car for recharge, it takes coal, another fossil fuel to accomplish that.
5. Throughout the full life time of an electric car, it will emit just 3 to 5 tons LESS CO2 than a conventional car over it's lifetime.

There are many other evidences to the green car helping the environment myth, but we only highlighted 5 here. So I wish the federal government would go away and leave Wyoming and its precious resources alone.