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To the editor:
Just a few facts for those supporters of "The Green New Deal" to consider.
The environmental effects of the manufacturing of the batteries is the most polluting part of an EV. Not only are they a polluting factor in the mining of the rare earth substance needed to make said batteries, but you have the carbon footprint of this method of the mining. There is also the fact that most of these rare earth deposits are under the control of the Chinese Communist Party.
When taking into consideration the carbon footprint of this EV production, if it were entirely done under "green" circumstances you would have to drive that car 22,000 miles just to break even with the average gasoline powered car, and that is if all the electricity used was "green."
If it was not then you would have to drive it farther to break even. And all this does not take into account the thousands of dollars extra it costs just to buy the EV car to begin with.
There is the fact that if the battery goes bad it costs half as much as the beginning cost of the car to replace it. Then there is the fact that when these batteries get damaged they may explode or catch fire and burn with an extremely high temperature.
My question is, just how "green" are these EVs in the long run?
Stephen E. Sellers
Lewistown