2) The quantity of greenhouse gases released by an electric power plant that does burn fossil fuels is much less per unit of energy released than for an internal combustion engine (I've read about 1/5th for the same distance traveled by the end-user's car).
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Perhaps in the production, BUT by the time you factor in transmission losses ( a lot of electricity is wasted heating up wires, shunted to ground by trees and what not touching the lines, lost in transformers, and all kinds of other factors) you are lucky to break even.
Jerry
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