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Electric Cars May Accelerate Global Warming - William Pentland - Clean Beta - Forbes

By STEPHEN HOLZER

Electric cars are not a silver bullet solution for global warming, but could they actually be part of the problem?  In some developing countries, the answer is likely ?yes,? according to the results of a modeling exercise conducted by Oxford University?s Reed Doucette and Malcolm McCullocha.

The results, which appeared in a paper published in Energy Policy last Fall, found that for countries with dirty power supplies ? like India and China ? widespread adoption of electric vehicles could lead to more ? not less ? CO2 emissions compared to widespread adoption of gasoline based vehicles, unless dramatically less CO2 intensive.

via blogs.forbes.com

Nothing is cost free and the law of unintended consequences continues to rule.

Full post as published by Environmental Legal Blogs on January 07, 2011 (boomark / email).