Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "Why your 'Carbon Footprint' Is A Lie | Climate Town" video.

I like your videos, but this shows the basic fallacy of the left's obsession with climate change. I see plenty of people yelling about it, but then if you ask, you find they have done nothing personally about it. They don't own electric cars, they don't have solar (despite having a house). Its just way easier to blame corporations isn't it? Getting an electric car is a major step to eliminating the direct burning of the dirtiest fossil fuels, namely gas and diesel. I have had electric cars (2) since 2013, and all of the excuses I hear about why people don't want one are basically nonsense repeated from biased press. No you don't have to spend hours waiting at a charger, yes you can use them for long distance travel, etc. Even if you live in one of the very few states that still rely on coal power generation, it is more efficient and has less emissions than gasoline cars, and coal power is being phased out in general across the USA anyways.
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@pat9353 1. Its about %10 to %20 percent more than a gas car. It is not "ridiculously more expensive". Also, purchase cost does not consider year to year maintence costs, which are essentially zero for electric cars. For a gas car its close to a $1000 or more per year. Finally, the savings in gas costs are a huge savings. With all of the savings factored in, electric cars are in fact much cheaper than gas cars, if you DO THE MATH. 2. So? In California we are near %30 solar, and the remaining fossil fuels are natural gas for the most part. An electric car will get cleaner as the grid cleans up. Gas cars will never get cleaner.
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