Another Reason To Not Buy A Chevrolet Volt

The phrase "coal powered car" is one we are trying to train into the public consciousness. The Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf are both pure coal powered cars. All of their energy is very likely to come from a plant that burns the dirtiest and cheapest fuel in the United States: coal. Coal produces more nasty [deleted] and pumps it into the air than oil, natural gas, or (perish the thought) nuclear energy generation. Coal is also a filthy thing to get out of the earth, and requires permanent removal of vast quantities of terrestrial structure to mine.

The Chevy Volt, in addition to being produced by a socialist government agency (General Motors) runs on power generated at old-style, non-carbon-sequestering coal plants. This is not changing. In an article that manages to be more about the lack of installations of budget-crushing pollution abatement equipment than the headline might imply, we find that 30 filthy old-school coal plants have been or are being built since the debate on whether to crush the coal industry through legislative fiat tax carbon emissions kicked off. You know why? Because we need more power generation stations and the power generating industry knows that alternative sources just can't cut it.

Note: there are no carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, or other harmful emissions from a nuclear electricity generation facility. Nowhere did they mention this in this anti-coal article.