Once upon a time an electric car was invented. The inventor said that it was the cleanest automobile on the road because there were no emissions!
Most people thought it was fantastic and despite the extremely high cost, they went out and bought themselves electric cars.
One day, an entire neighborhood suddenly blacked out. It was the middle of summer and nobody could understand why the local powerplant was no longer capable of providing power to the city, despite expanding it's generator capacity.
Well, it turns out that electric cars draw roughly the same amount of electricity as small homes when they are charging.
Oh, and the power plant providing the electricity to charge the new electric cars, is a coal-burning power plant.
So the neighbors in the nice clean subdivision all went to the big hardware supercenter store and bought gas powered generators so they could charge their cars and still have electricity to run their home air conditioning in the summer.
The end.
