To one degree or another, I think we all know that driving our combustion engined vehicles is not good for the environment - on many levels. That small but growing spark of guilt might get us to buy a more fuel efficient vehicle next time or car pool to work a couple times a week, but let's face it, we - us, the consumer generation, haven't shown much interest in, or taken much action to prevent the onset of devastating effects of climate change caused by CO2 emissions.
Depending on where you get your (dis)information, man-made climate change is either impossible, a liberal media conspiracy, merely a political football or an inescapable doomsday scenario already underway. I think it's somewhere in the middle of all of the above. Greenland is melting. We've already seen chunks of ice the size of Rhode Island break off of Antarctica and begin floating north. Is this all part of a natural process that humans play no part in? No way. Not when it's happening this fast.
So will we all be driving electric cars in 20 years? Maybe. But if we're still burning coal to generate the electricity for all those billions of future electric vehicles, then we really won't be any better off, environmentally, than we are today.
That Tesla Model S is one cool looking car though.
