Let's all go eco friendly and buy electric cars, shall we?

NO!

I love a celebrity with a social conscience. There's nothing better than Crystal Chappell creating a web series about lesbian community to take her previous character to the next level (and Jessica Leccia following her) or Sheetal Sheth being gay for pay time and time again, or Naya Rivera hosting GLAAD awards, or Shay Mitchell's PSA about ending human trafficking in Thailand or any of the hundreds of other causes celebs take part and raise awareness every day, tirelessly. There is nothing better than an actress embracing the community they portray on TV or in a movie and raising awareness about gay rights, bullying and endless other issues they become aware of by playing one. You embrace us and our struggles and you have a fan for life!

When you go on Twitter and start following celebs, you pretty quickly start noticing what they are all about. When you go on Youtube and watch their interviews and the causes they support, you fall in love with them even more. Gay rights, human rights, hunger, human trafficking, religious freedom, natural disasters, and environmental issues to name a few can all be seen all over their twitter accounts. But what gets me is the misinformation they sometimes present as facts. Little things like fact checking and THINKING before you speak/post would go a long way...

I was just reading on twitter how this older american actress was asking for electric plugs in homes for electric cars. Let me tell you something: ELECTRIC CARS ARE NOT THE FUTURE, ESPECIALLY IN AMERICA! It seems to me that people think that as long as you take the going-to-a-gas-station-to-fill-up-your-car-with-gas part out of the car experience, it all of a sudden becomes environmentally friendly. NO! Have you considered where that electricity comes from? What is used to produce that electricity? GAS, most likely. Or maybe nuclear energy. Most likely some non-renewable type of energy source. So just because it's not gas straight to your car, doesn't mean that it's gas free.

American summers are not mild and pleasant. They are hot and humid. You have your air conditioner on 24/7 and your electric bills are ginormous! Sometimes you have to conserve energy because the old and outdated electric grid is so over worked that electricity outages are happening more than they should. So During the peak hours between 5-8pm when people come home from work, start cooking, put the A/C on even higher and have the TV on, you expect the electric grid to push a little extra too for ALL THOSE CARS to get their juices so that they would be working the next morning? I don't think so my friend. And isn't there rolling blackouts in LA every summer because of the heat? And to add to it the fact that many/most american families have a car if not 2 or 3... If you really wanted to be environmentally friendly, you'd try to find a way to seriously lessen your driving to everywhere, whether hours or minutes away and trying to invent a energy source for cars that is truly environmentally friendly from production to usage to emissions.

Efficient cars, efficient, emission free energy sources, less private cars/driving, better public transport system... and common sense when driving to the grocery store next door would be a start for more environmentally friendly existence.

Doing my part/PSA for environmentally friendly world since...10 minutes ago! :-D
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