One of the big questions these days is: Is the future EV? And what effect do electric vehicles have on the climate? We sat down with Diana Furchtgott-Roth, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and former acting secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department.
Furchtgott-Roth said, “But really, having electric vehicles will not help global warming, and here’s why: the electricity still has to be generated somewhere. When you have gasoline, you observe that there are emissions coming out of the tailpipe. When you have an electric vehicle, it seems very clean. But to produce the electricity to make that electric vehicle go, you have to have a power plant. That power plant runs on maybe natural gas these days, maybe some coal, maybe some oil. You can’t run all the power plants on solar and wind; we just don’t have that technology.”
