The claim: Electric cars are green.
The background: After a Reno Gazette-Journal story about local businesses that go above and beyond in their efforts to be green, Marian Stroh of Reno wrote in with three questions that “are not so far answered”:
• How to dispose of fluorescent bulbs?
• Why the United States doesn’t drill for its own oil?
• And why people don’t understand that electric cars aren’t as green as claimed?
The first two questions are easy. As for electric cars being green, there’s more debate.