Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars, report finds

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4. Love to see the details of their analysis

I drive two PHEVs. My Chevy VOLT as burned less than ten gallons of gasoline in the last 15 months...because the car forces me to burn fuel that has been in the tank for more than a year. My Toyota RAV4 Prime is used for occasional road trips, and runs at least 80% of it's miles on electric. My total gasoline consumption for this period is less than 100 gallons (about six and a half gallons per month for both cars).

All of the electric power for the cars come from rooftop solar. I see no way that the carbon footprint of these cars is 81% of a gasoline engine (even if I were using grid power).