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Much has been said about Global Warming over the past decade. Al Gore’s groundbreaking documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” thrust the issue onto the national stage. Global Warming has become a hot topic around the water cooler and on Capital Hill. Despite Al Gore’s claims in his movie there is not a compelling body of evidence that humans are to blame for the increase in temperature. After all, the temperature of the earth does fluctuate naturally. For example, the ice age came and went and it had nothing to do with humans.

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There has been a lot of hype recently about electric cars and how they are going to reduce pollution but as you’ll soon find out that simply isn’t the case.  As a matter of fact, in their current state, electric cars could even lead to worsening the pollution problem.  Electric vehicles are certainly a step in the right direction but they are far from the free ride some people seem to be trying to pass them off as.

Electric cars still need to be charged and there in lies the problem.  That power comes from your local power plant which may generate the power it provides in a number of ways including:  Burning fossil fuels (ie Oil or Coal) , Hydrodynamic, Nuclear, Wind, Solar, Etc.  In the US almost half of the electricity generated comes from coal.  Following that we have Nuclear and Natural gas at around 20% each.  So that electric car you are driving around it is getting roughly 70% of it’s electricity from Coal and Nuclear power.  Suddenly it doesn’t seem like such a “clean” way to get around, right?

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Let’s face it, despite what we say we really only want to save the environment if it isn’t a hassle and doesn’t cost us anything.  Very few people out there are actually willing to give up “luxuries” or start changing the way they go about life to make a meaningful impact on the environment.

Look all around you, waste is everywhere.  From simple things like tossing a used cigarette out the the window of a car to how this country wastes millions of gallons each year because of our poor driving habits.  Some people would even argue tossing that cigarette out the window isn’t even littering.  Of course walk into that persons house and toss it on their floor and they might have a different idea about the situation.

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