{"id":24639,"date":"2017-08-11T16:53:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T21:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24639"},"modified":"2017-08-11T16:53:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T21:53:43","slug":"tesla-cars-arent-as-carbon-and-taxpayer-friendly-as-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24639","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Cars Aren\u2019t As Carbon (And Taxpayer) Friendly As You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tesla Cars Aren\u2019t As Carbon (And Taxpayer) Friendly As You Think<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Tesla proponents love to remind people<\/a> how their vehicles are \u201ccarbon free\u201d (in spite of Tesla CEO Elon Musk\u2019s own carbon profligate lifestyle<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Fact: the Tesla Model S is\u00a0an environmentally friendly, zero emissions electric vehicle that won\u2019t pollute the air like gas-powered cars.<\/strong> Carbon\u00a0emissions from a\u00a0gas car\u2019s tailpipe has a dangerous impact on global warming\u2026. In addition, Tesla CEO Elon Musk\u00a0explains\u00a0that, \u201ccombustion cars emit\u00a0toxic gases. According to an MIT study,\u00a0there are\u00a053,000 deaths per year in the U.S. alone from auto emissions.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But in reminding people about how they don\u2019t burn fossil fuels, they make sure to omit and\/or obfuscate all the other emissions-laden factors that go into production of Tesla automobiles, including the oft-unspoken costs of the vehicles to the taxpayer and to other auto manufacturers.<\/p>\n

Start with the power source for the Tesla; their electric power plant uses lithium-ion batteries to store the electricity required to run the car. \u00a0And while a good amount of lithium is produced at salt lake brines that use chemical processes to extract the requisite lithium\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u2026a large (and growing) amount of lithium is sourced from hard-rock mining, which is also referred to as strip mining:<\/p>\n

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This type of mining involves not just all the carbon used to extract the lithium from mines, it \u201cstrips\u201d the land of its forests, which is far more environmentally (and carbon) detrimental. \u00a0And while it is likely impossible to know exactly where Tesla sources its materials from, a closer examination on Tesla\u2019s impact on the mining industry<\/a> should paint a crystal clear picture:<\/p>\n

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Tesla Cars Aren\u2019t As Carbon (And Taxpayer) Friendly As You Think Tesla proponents love to remind people how their vehicles are \u201ccarbon free\u201d (in spite of Tesla CEO Elon Musk\u2019s own carbon profligate lifestyle): Fact: the Tesla Model S is\u00a0an environmentally friendly, zero emissions electric vehicle that won\u2019t pollute the air like gas-powered cars. Carbon\u00a0emissions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15399],"class_list":["post-24639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-duane-norman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24640,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24639\/revisions\/24640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}