Thursday, March 3, 2011

Sierra Club's Go Electric Campaign

The future is here with electric vehicles! Automobiles, above all else, represent America's addiction to dirty oil. Plug-in electric vehicles (EVs), which require no gasoline and emit no pollution from their tailpipes, present a critical opportunity to slash pollution, reduce dependence on oil, create American jobs, and improve national security. To drive this change, the Sierra Club has launched a national campaign to promote electric vehicles -- just as new EV models are hitting the roads.

Each year, American passenger cars and trucks spew approximately 1.3 billion tons of carbon pollution into the air by burning 129 billion gallons of gasoline. Our dangerous dependence on oil has resulted in catastrophes like the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico and, every day, we send more than $500,000,000 abroad to pay for oil, increasing our national debt and dependence on many nations hostile to our policies.

President Obama has set a goal of one million EVs on U.S. roads by 2015, which would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 2.4 million tons a year. There is increasing public and private investment in electric vehicles. EVs are clearly a winner when it comes to reducing our dangerous addiction to oil. Additionally, the electricity that powers EVs leads to less CO2 pollution than most other cars on the road today. And the cleaner the grid, the lower the emissions from electricity generation. So we need to shift to electric vehicles now, while simultaneously transitioning to clean, renewable electricity sources like solar, wind, and geothermal

Source: Sierra Club

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