Letter: Electric school buses are basically powered by fossil fuels, too

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 20, 2024

Electric vehicles are essentially powered by fossil fuel. In the past 20 years solar and wind contributions to total energy use are quite modest, especially for more urban states. By and large over the last 20 years, solar and wind increases have not decreased fossil fuel use, but rather have decreased the increase in total fossil fuel use. We need to very rapidly decrease all fossil fuels with the goal to totally eliminate that use as soon as possible. The only solution that I see that can realistically decrease fossil fuel fast enough is nuclear power ~ Kevin McCartney, Retired geology professor, Caribou