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Motor Mouth: A few more inconvenient truths about EV CO2 emissions

So the comparison wants to utilize all the upstream energy costs to produce electricity, but none of the gasoline's upstream costs?
It is glaringly obvious that the gasoline arrives at the pump, only after a huge expenditure of energy to:
locate, drill, extract, transport, refine, transport again.
Not to mention the pollution created by burning off some by-products right at the site, where there are no emission controls on the flares...
 
Motor Mouth: A few more inconvenient truths about EV CO2 emissions

So the comparison wants to utilize all the upstream energy costs to produce electricity, but none of the gasoline's upstream costs?
It is glaringly obvious that the gasoline arrives at the pump, only after a huge expenditure of energy to:
locate, drill, extract, transport, refine, transport again.
Not to mention the pollution created by burning off some by-products right at the site, where there are no emission controls on the flares...
The bias was so obvious, it was comical. The sad thing is, people eat this stuff up.