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Are Electric Cars Really Better For The Environment?

22 Sep 2023 | Abstracted from Washington Post

"Mining minerals for the clean-energy economy is measured in millions of tons per year. For fossil fuel extraction, that’s a rounding error...In 2020, building the world’s wind turbines, solar panels, EVs and other clean-energy infrastructure demanded 7 million tons of minerals

"The oil, gas and coal industry, by contrast, extracted the equivalent of 15 billion metric tons in 2019...mining minerals for the clean-energy economy amounts to extracting about five times less matter than what's extracted by the fossil fuel industry."

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