Electric cars: great for summer trips – and the environment, too

Like the rest of the summer months, August is a great time for family vacations. That means lots of folks will be hitting the road for their favorite vacation spots. As hybrid-electric cars become more and more popular, some of those families will probably be traveling in these new fuel-efficient vehicles – and that’s good for several reasons.

The energy a hybrid vehicle runs on has to come from somewhere – and since we get half of our electricity from coal, odds are good that the electricity charging it is coal generated. By relying more on domestic coal and less on imported oil, we’re greatly increasing America’s energy security.

Plus… if the plug-in hybrid’s electricity can be produced utilizing clean coal technology and carbon sequestration, we can also greatly reduce the greenhouse gases that are currently being released into the atmosphere by every car on the highway without increasing emissions in the utility sector.

That sounds like a win-win situation to me.