{"id":54212,"date":"2020-07-17T10:43:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T15:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54212"},"modified":"2020-07-17T10:43:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T15:43:27","slug":"the-green-electric-car-myth-772-pounds-of-petro-chemical-plastics-in-each-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54212","title":{"rendered":"THE GREEN ELECTRIC CAR MYTH: 772 Pounds Of Petro-Chemical Plastics In Each Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/srsroccoreport.com\/the-green-electric-car-myth-772-pounds-of-petro-chemical-plastics-in-each-vehicle\/\">THE GREEN ELECTRIC CAR MYTH: 772 Pounds Of Petro-Chemical Plastics In Each Vehicle<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How can an electric car be called \u201cGreen\u201d when it contains more than 700 pounds of plastic??&nbsp; Electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers are using more plastic to lower the weight of the car due to the massive battery used, weighing more than 1,000 pounds.&nbsp; Unfortunately, plastic is still made from petrochemicals, the so-called \u201cDirty Fossil-fuel Industry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, without petrochemicals, the manufacture of electric cars would be extremely difficult without plastic.&nbsp; And the primary feedstock for plastic is natural gas liquids (NGLs).&nbsp; Due to the rapid rise in NGLs production, especially in the United States, plastic production has surged.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>We can see in the chart below, that the United States accounted for nearly 90% of global NGLs production growth since 2007<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d39ua1j16brbz0.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/US-vs-Rest-Of-World-NGLs-Production-Jan-07-Jan-20.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22422\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, with all this extra NGLs production, the United States has a monopoly on the Global NGLs Feedstock for going GREEN.&nbsp; Of the 3.8 million barrels per day (mbd) of NGLs global production growth since 2007, the United States added 3.4 mbd of that total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In tearing apart the \u201cGreen Electric Vehicle Myth,\u201d I will focus this article only on the plastic component.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There seems to be this notion that cars manufactured 50 years ago were much heavier than vehicles today due to a higher percentage of metals used.&nbsp; This turns out to be false when we look at the data.&nbsp; According to an Autoweek article by Murliee Martin titled,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoweek.com\/car-life\/classic-cars\/a1860276\/car-weight-comparison-1967-versus-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em><strong>50 years of car weight gain: from the Chevelle to the Sonic, the Fairlane to the Focus<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, a 1967 mid-sized Chevy Chevelle weighed in at 2,915 pounds versus a 2,955 pounds for a 2017 Chevy Sonic subcompact car:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d39ua1j16brbz0.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1967-Chevelle-vs-2017-Chevy-Sonic.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22418\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(image courtesy of Autoweek.com, General Motors &amp; Pinterest)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looks are deceiving\u2026 eh?\u00a0 If you read the article linked above,\u00a0<strong>the 1967 Chevy Chevelle with all that metal and very little plastic actually weighed 40 pounds less than the subcompact 2017 Chevy Sonic<\/strong>.\u00a0 Go figure\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE GREEN ELECTRIC CAR MYTH: 772 Pounds Of Petro-Chemical Plastics In Each Vehicle How can an electric car be called \u201cGreen\u201d when it contains more than 700 pounds of plastic??&nbsp; Electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers are using more plastic to lower the weight of the car due to the massive battery used, weighing more than 1,000 [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,4],"tags":[328,1406,10494],"class_list":["post-54212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-green-energy","tag-petrochemicals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54212","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=54212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54213,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54212\/revisions\/54213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}