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The Pollution Problem with Electric Cars

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    FBN’s Stuart Varney sounds off on the environmental issues with alternative-fuel vehicles.

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The climate issue you know you can't win not even those environmentally -- so wonderful in metric because no.

He can't win is -- -- -- out the electric car is not so environmentally pure after role.

Making them spews out far more common than making a standard gasoline pound vehicle just -- the lithium for the battery.

Highly emissions that's a high emissions business and every time you change the -- real charge the battery.

It's -- -- outpouring of -- and in fact making making an electric car.

Puts as much company into the atmosphere driving and gasoline -- cough up 80000 miles before you get behind the wheel you are any -- But now the big picture for a second.

America did not sign the Kyoto treaty about twenty years ago environmentalists cry foul -- -- doing -- bit to the fight against global warming.

But look what's happened America has cut its emissions -- long -- the Europeans how.

But fracking for natural gas and using it it power plants some European countries have banned fracking.

You really can't win.

No matter what you do you would offend environmentalists.

This is because of the basic premise of the environmental argument that human activity is the cause of the coming climate disaster.

If you buy that you -- buying into a doomsday.

Outlook you humans you all the problems.

I'm not buying it.

I want growth I want to go and get the resource as we have beneath our own tough I'm go to buy a gas powered -- because that's what I want.

And it's mind -- Bottom line to this might take just leave me alone.