Experts weigh in on claim that electric cars have a mining problem: ‘It always makes me laugh.’ The mineral use for electric cars is actually far lower than gasoline and diesel’s when accounting for oil needed for fuel-burning cars. And the majority of battery minerals are likely to be recycled.

They also seem to bring up the landfilling issue associated with spent solar cells or wind turbine blades but seem to convienitly forget that in coal mining country they literally blow the tops off mountains and fill in drainages with what would be hazardous waste if the laws weren’t written with loopholes allowing those practices.

Nevermind coal ash ponds and the massive amount of effort to reconfigure those piles of again, hazardous waste under any other name, to not have groundwater flowing through the waste material, which energy companies are doing everything in their power to avoid responsibility for mitigating.