‘You dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth’s crust for just one battery’ Driving an electric car has been heralded as a moral virtue and, of late, the solution to record-high gas prices. There’s certainly a benefit from curbing air pollution, but the question is, at what cost? In a column highlighted by Powerline blogger John Hinderaker, engineer and energy expert  and author of the 2021 book “Clean Energy Exploitations: Helping Citizens Understand the Environmental and Humanity Abuses That Support Clean Energy”.… Read the rest