When I saw all the copy-cat reports of the paid-media's misinterpretation of that report all over the newswires like a multiple of wormy-droppings, my first thought was, "Here we go again ..."
How many times has it been that the media has been paid to pump/spew this stuff out. The forces that would lose profit when more plugins are on the road, have paid since before I was lucky enough to join the evdl (that was a very long time ago, circa 1990's). So, this is a never ending out cry, like falsely accusing your neighbor of being a pedophile, or like in the old-days when you wanted to get rid of a person, cry-out that they are a witch and have them burned at the stake! This yet another repeat of the paid-media' attempt to discredit EVs. I did not post this because, I felt to do so would only help keep it alive / give support to it by talking about it. But since Danny has taken the reins and posted on this, I can help his effort to counter this, by providing the following: https://transportevolved.com/2014/12/21/transport-evolved-news-panel-talk-show-episode-222-wild-claims/ Are misinterpreted academic reports the symptom of our sound-bite culture, poor reporting, or simply just a reminder that we should read research papers for ourselves before drawing any conclusions? which lead to https://transportevolved.com/2014/12/16/beware-misinterpreted-study-electric-cars-yet-miscast-heavy-polluters/ Beware The Misinterpreted Study: How Electric Cars Are Yet Again Being Miscast as Heavy Polluters December 16, 2014 By Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield It’s a trope we’ve heard many times before and we’ll probably hear it many times again in the future: the headline-grabbing proclamation that electric cars are worse for the environment than gasoline cars ... (read the rest yourself) Danny provided a link to the original report, but sometimes it gets lost as a thread grows, so here it is again: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/12/10/1406853111.full.pdf+html I hope everyone will stay focused on the truth, and not let the paid-media's misinterpretations continue. For EVLN posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html#nabble+template%2FNamlServlet.jtp%3Fmacro%3Dsearch_page%26node%3D413529%26query%3DEVLN%2Bbrucedp2%26days%3D0%26sort%3Ddate {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/PNAS-report-cites-study-that-EV-s-pollute-more-than-gas-cars-tp4673112p4673125.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
