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Today is the final episode of our five part series this week on the dirty green revolution.

So for the past week we've talked about solar panels, wind turbines and the batteries

that store and distribute their energy. But as the facts make very clear,

none of that stuff is clean or green or renewable at all despite what proponents might say.

It all comes with some pretty horrible costs and that's why we call it dirty green energy.

Well today we're wrapping up the series with the one thing that will touch all of us profoundly

about this dirty energy revolution and that's electric vehicles. And that's because over the

past several months, the states of California, New York, Washington and others have passed laws

saying that if you want to buy a new car starting in the year 2035, it must be electric.

There will be no new gas power cars sold ever again in those states after that year.

And by the way, it's not just the states that are doing this.

Some car manufacturers are agreeing to it too. General Motors for instance is announced that

they will stop building gas powered cars by the year 2035. So folks, we have to talk about this

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