re: Economist Predicts Fossil Fuel Vehicles No Longer Sold In 8 Years

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Do you live in India? Cause in the U.S., 70% electricity is generated from a fuel other than coal.

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65% is still generated from fossil fuel, of which coal is still 30%, other than a little wind, solar and the other "feelgood" energy sources amount to squat.

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As of 2016

•Natural gas = 33.8%
•Coal = 30.4%
•Nuclear = 19.7%
•Renewables (total) = 14.9%
•Hydropower = 6.5%
•Wind = 5.6%
•Biomass = 1.5%

•Solar = 0.9%
•Geothermal = 0.4%

•Petroleum = 0.6%
•Other gases = 0.3%
•Other nonrenewable sources = 0.3%
•Pumped storage hydroelectricity = -0.2%4