Oh…;(

♪Summer in the hills
Those hazy days I do remember
We were running still
Had the whole world at our feet
Watching seasons change
Our roads were lined with adventure
Mountains in the way
Couldn’t keep us from the sea
Here we stand open arms
This is home where we are
Ever strong in the world that we made
I still hear you in the breeze
See your shadows in the trees
Holding on, memories never change♪

@Tinandel  
Well, I never knew that! The more I learn.

@Dsiak  
Americans do, quite a bit… mostly because that’s what we’ve got the most of. The eastern mountain range of the US, the Appalachian Mountains, are very rich in coal.
 
Edit: though for what it’s worth, we’re phasing it out more and more as time goes on. Gotta give my energy company, Dominion, some credit… they are putting forth a legitimate effort to incentivize clean tech.

Wait, I don’t think anypony aside from Chine uses coal for electricity. Mostly because the fines for the pollution makes it super expensive.

@Tinandel  
Refineries also use enormous amounts of energy to make the gas so the argument that “your electric car isn’t clean because it gets its energy from coal” is a red herring.

@HDPlayer  
I’m awfully late to the party, but that’s not completely true. While electric cars charge from the grid and the electrical grid is still dirty, even electrical grids are still dramatically, dramatically cleaner than gasoline cars. This is both because electric cars convert energy into locomotion at a rate MUCH more efficient than that of a car’s engine converting gasoline (in which process MOST of the generated energy is wasted as heat) and also because for gasoline to even get to your car, it has to be shipped extremely long distances at no small carbon cost itself. Oil tankers generate a huge amount of carbon.
 
Electric cars are only as clean as the energy they use, that’s true. But they are MUCH better than the alternative and only get better as the electrical grid is upgraded with better sources.

Listen to the animals  
Listen to the trees  
Listen to the spirits of the Earth  
Begging us please  
Stop listening to greed
 
Listen to the rivers  
Listen to the sea  
Listen to the spirits of the deep  
Begging us please  
Stop listening to greed
 
She sent the drought to warn us  
She sent the storms to scold us  
But we don’t listen  
We burn and we break  
And we take and we take  
And we take  
Till it’s too late
 
Oh where did the beasts go?  
Where did the trees go?  
Where will man go  
When he has lost  
The heartbeat  
beneath his feet
 
Oh this is our home  
She gives us home  
Mother Earth  
Can’t you feel  
Her heartbeat  
Beneath your feet
 
Heartbeat  
Beneath your feet  
Heartbeat  
Beneath your feet
 
Listen to the animals  
Listen to the trees  
Listen to the spirits of the Earth  
Begging us please  
Stop listening to greed
 
Listen to the rivers  
Listen to the sea  
Listen to the spirits of the deep  
Begging us please  
Stop listening to greed
 
Listen to the animals  
Listen to the trees  
Listen to the spirits of the Earth  
Begging us please  
Stop listening to greed
 
Listen to the rivers  
Listen to the sea  
Listen to the spirits of the deep  
Begging us please  
Stop listening to greed

@Dsiak  
Sorry

@BronyAirman2552  
Canada’s Terrance and Phillip is responsible to at least 90% of the whole global warming problem, you should apologize in behalf of your country.

@HDPlayer  
Well, too bad.

@HwanyPlayz  
uh, sory didn’t saw this.
 
I live in Germany, we left the Nuclear technology behind… a horrible mistake in my opinion, because of 2 reasons.  

I still feel like Canada needs more nuclear power. It would surely be better than all the oil we are using up right now.

@HDPlayer  

 
This argument is an excellent deflection. Refineries use electricity too. So do gas stations, and gas has to be transported by truck and train, which use fuel that comes from the refinery.

@OtherDrawfag  
I see what you talking about.

@HwanyPlayz  
Thorium as opposed to uranium fueled nuclear reactors produces significantly less waste (which is already small with conventional methods.) It is also much more abundant, cleaner, and is fertile for use when mined. The molten salt aspect is mostly technical, but it hosts some advantages like its safety features.  
You don’t necessarily have to worry about people using this for bombs as well if that’s a concern.

@OtherDrawfag  
what is that

@HDPlayer  
We need thorium liquid fuel reators! Then we have the same productive capacity of clean energy that most fossil fuels have.

@HDPlayer  
Where even do you live? Because in here our government is in charge of developing nuclear power generators.

@HDPlayer  
Blame the anti-nuke NIMBYs for that.

@HwanyPlayz  
that won’t do shit. Electric cars are as clean as the power they are charged with.
 
and coal is still the majority used for Power generation. instead of the far cleaner, more efficent Nuclear Reactors.  
Nuclear Power is the best we have, but we just ignore it because noone seems to work on it anymore… about all reactors used are still 90s designs…

Euro 6 does nothing. All we need to do is not to buy Diesel vehicles.

@Background Pony #38A4  
Morale of the the story is that politicians have their heads too far up their own asses for anything positive to get done correctly and in good time.

@HDPlayer  
Humans certainly give a shit. We’re just focused on the wrong ways to fix this. Our ocean is still full of plastic and we haven’t noticed because we’re too busy trying to clean up above-ground pollution when we should be focusing on the ocean first because that’s an even bigger factor than greenhouse gasses. Doesn’t help that the alleged “Leader of the Free World” thinks climate change is a scam by the Chinese, which I’m fairly certain does not actually reflect the opinion of the majority; the minority is just louder.

Because car guys don’t give any fucking shit about what the fuck are they doing, at least someone does try to help, but they don’t even try to.