Cars and Global Warming: 9 Noteworthy Tweets on Electric Cars Worsening the Environment

While some people may believe electric cars could potentially produce lower global warming emissions and cost less in fuel, others are convinced these cars do more damage than good.

Here are nine noteworthy tweets on electric cars worsening the environment:

Research is showing that burning coal for electrical power creates more pollution.

'Commies Cars,' I.E. Electric Cars, Trash The Environment #ElectricCars #environmentalism #junkscience http://t.co/W4byz8fynH

— Ilana Mercer (@IlanaMercer) December 29, 2014

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Electric Cars Worse For Health, Environment Than Gas-Powered, Study Cl... via @theinquisitr http://t.co/1CE2c2u1At pic.twitter.com/77S1GKKqrh

— LoTN LLC (@LoTN_Online) February 15, 2015

Electric cars are a complete sham. They shift pollution to the production of electricity and have little effect on the environment.

— Dagwood Bumstead (@Daggy1) February 19, 2015

Electric cars could make the air dirtier from power plants and make global warming worse, according to some blogs and forums:

You May Not Be So Green After All: People who own all-electric cars may think they are helping the environment... http://t.co/pk7ioQM046

— Nelsonecom (@nelsonecom) January 30, 2015

CMV: Electric cars are not better for the environment - they just change the emissions from the cars to the power … http://t.co/vETuqRjwrP

— /r/changemyview (@redditcmv) January 29, 2015

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PNAS: Electric cars charged with coal-generated power far worse for environment than diesel or gas #gendleglobal http://t.co/pChSJCnMQu

— Mathew Gendle (@GendleMathew) January 20, 2015

A true life cycle perspective to technologies also considers future energy sources - in my view, that is not coal. http://t.co/zEef18pYIt

— Jo Shatkin (@josthoughts) January 5, 2015

Electric cars may be one of the worst air polluters, along with ethanol-fueled vehicles. http://t.co/aIIBECIZN5 #greatplains #environment

— Benjamin Vogt (@BRVogt) December 21, 2014

THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS! & I'm not a professor! Electric Cars, Ethanol Harm the Environment http://t.co/Qus1Uj9ugd via @po_st

— Good Doobie (@bayes46) December 16, 2014

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