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>Somewhere, off in the distance, a coal or gas-fired generator is producing a significant majority portion of that electric energy

For every car that is produced, two things are true:

(1) It takes fossil fuels to make and deliver them. (2) It takes fossil fuels to run them.

For every internal combustion engine car produced in 2022, both (1) and (2) will true for the entire life of the vehicle, which in the US is around 12 years.

For every electric car, only (1) is guaranteed to be true for the life of the car. (2) is a choice, one that we can change in the 12 years that vehicle in on the road.