Are you kidding? It's not an argument about how much carbon it takes to create electricity versus how much carbon burning gasoline creates. Notice the difference in that sentence in the word "create". The concept is that electricity is an energy carrier. That is the point. We need renewable energy carriers. It can be anything. Hydrogen, light, electricity, gasoline, alcohol, water.... BUT, if you use a non-renewable carrier, you are consuming two things. The energy and the carrier. Electricity is a renewable carrier. So, if we are producing it with coal, then that is a problem that needs resolution. And it can be resolved. Find ways to generate the energy cleanly -- then use electricity to carry it.
Take hydrogen. It can be an energy carrier also. There are clean ways to create it. There are also unsustainable ways to create it.
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