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Electric vs. conventional cars on conservation / Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist, 15/03/2013http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.fr/2013/03/electric-vs-conventional-cars-on.htmlEarlier this week, Bjorn Lomborg wrote an intriguing op-ed for the Wall Street Journal titled "Green Cars Have a Dirty Little Secret: Producing and charging electric cars means heavy carbon-dioxide emissions." I always enjoy reading Lomborg, but I'm also the sort of person who prefers to read the research myself. The underlying article is "Comparative Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Conventional and Electric Vehicles," by Troy R. Hawkins, Bhawna Singh, Guillaume Majeau-Bettez, and Anders Hammer Strømman. It appears in the February 2013 issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology (17: 1, pp. 53-64)...