instead you get to breathe in that sweet, sweet tire dust, which hybrids and EVs tend to make more of because they're typically heavier than their ICE counterparts.
but until the electrical grid is moved to cleaner sources (including nuclear for baseload), it doesn't make much difference what you drive. with the current distribution of generation, we'd be mostly shifting the pollution from tailpipes to smokestacks (especially at the margin) rather than getting rid of it--coal emissions are many times worse than tailpipe emissions, not to mention the pollution from coal, oil & gas extraction.
and pollution is exactly what we should be worried about, not CO₂, which is the worst sort of distraction when trying to make sense of the environmental dangers we're creating (it muddies the waters to create uncertainty and inaction).
but until the electrical grid is moved to cleaner sources (including nuclear for baseload), it doesn't make much difference what you drive. with the current distribution of generation, we'd be mostly shifting the pollution from tailpipes to smokestacks (especially at the margin) rather than getting rid of it--coal emissions are many times worse than tailpipe emissions, not to mention the pollution from coal, oil & gas extraction.
and pollution is exactly what we should be worried about, not CO₂, which is the worst sort of distraction when trying to make sense of the environmental dangers we're creating (it muddies the waters to create uncertainty and inaction).