Are hybrid and electric cars really better for the environment?

Ozzie Zehner used to think so; he used to be enthusiastic about electric cars. But he says he was wrong.

In his new book, Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism, he argues that we don’t have an energy crisis, we have a consumption crisis. He persuasively argues for a change of perspective.

Zehner recently published an op-ed piece in The Christian Science Monitor about his conclusions using the recent release of the Tesla SUV as a springboard to talk about how electric cars won’t solve the problems of vehicular travel.

“They simply move the problems elsewhere – often to contexts where they become more opaque and difficult to address,” Zehner says.

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