Originally Posted by crockett

Coal = 39%
Natural gas = 27%
Nuclear = 19%
Hydropower = 6%
Other renewables = 7%
Biomass = 1.7%
Geothermal = 0.4%
Solar = 0.4%
Wind = 4.4%
Petroleum = 1%
Other gases < 1%

Of the 2 fossil fuels we use to generate electric in this country, only one is really harmful. Which is coal.. Coal might be the largest single fuel type, it is still not the majority and it's slowly being phased out..

Here in Colorado for example they use a lot of coal but they were already moving away from coal with out any Federal govt intervention. In fact if Obama's new coal regulation were to be put into effect, Colorado would not have to change their current plans as they were already on plan to be where the proposed regulations want them to be..

Coal just like Gasoline is on the way out.. In fact the only reason we aren't phasing it out fast, is because too many corrupt polititions are in the pockets of the coal industry.

Anyway.. Burning coal to generate electric to power electric cars, is still cleaner than burning coal and burning gas to power cars..