Do Electric Cars Harm The Environment?

Hey, Patrick Sorys here. Today, in this new day and age, we are faced with the question: Do electric cars harm the environment? Or, on a deeper level, do Electric Cars affect our society? Well, to start, we will need to address the fact that Electric Cars aren't at all a new concept: we will have to go back to it's History. Electric Cars, at first, weren't practical inventions. They had to compete against their gasoline and steam engine counterparts. Frankly, people preferred the electric car though because it was less noisy and practical when traveling short distances. Well, how did they lose to the Petrol engine? The Economic Principle of Incentives Matter will address this issue. Behavior changes, over time, when costs or benefits

well, surely it does. But not in a way you may perceive to be necessarily bad. Let me emphasize this: The people who have Electric Cars are better off than those with Petrol Cars. Let me summarize to you sections from News Articles regarding this topic. The Guardian magazine reports that the UK is rewarded funds for providing their cities with certain Electric Vehicle perks. Many of these perks include free parking space for patrions who have Electric Cars. Coming back across the Atlantic, we are faced with these issues too! Have you noticed, when pulling into Santana Row, or many more lavish places around the Bay Area, the many different "charging ports" for the Tesla? They are everywhere and, usually, this can be annoying. Especially when you can't find parking but there are always one or two Tesla spots open. It almost seems as if though society is encouraging us to buy an Electric Car. Why is this so? Well the Economic Principle being used here is Future Consequences Matter. The decisions we make today not only affect us in the present, but also in the future. The decisions we make can have intended and unintended consequences, sometimes on someone else too, called Externalities. In this case, the externalities are quite evident and predictable. The average person can see it everyday. If one person buys a Tesla because of the claim that it will protect the environment, then the next person will buy one too. Not only this, but governments too are trying to give people reasons to buy one with compensation rewards: such as $7,500 for any new electric car built. Remember the Tesla Parking spots? Yeah, those have been built by city governments. Frankly we are faced by social pressure, but yet again, it will be our choice of we want an electric car or