>>>>>>On a more serious note...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/15/electric-vehicles-emit-more-pollutants-than-fossil-fuel-burning-cars-says-study
>>>>>
>>>>>When my girl was in 2nd grade, she came home from school and told me the wonders of non-polluting electric cars.
>>>>>She learned about them in school that day.
>>>>>
>>>>>We had a little discussion on how electricity was a transport and not an actual source of energy.
>>>>>
>>>>>I think the teacher was a little confused the next day when my daughter told her (with enough facts to back it up) that:
>>>>> "Electric cars burn COAL."
>>>>
>>>>Ha, good one.
>>>>
>>>>Last week my daughter came home and told me that she learned from her teacher that "people from North Carolina are bigots"
>>>
>>>
>>>Well, people from North Carolina are bigots.
>>>Not all are, but some are, so that statement is correct.
>>>In that context, people from NY, NJ, London and Munich are also bigots.
>>>So, the teacher said something that is correct but meaningless and potentially dangerously misleading.
>>>I'm sure that you cleared things up, as we often did with our children.
>>>Yet another example of why children who can bounce things off thinking parents have a leg up on those who can't.
>>>As a punishment, I'd sentence that teacher to 10 years of watching NASCAR races.
>>
>>With or without beer?
>
>No beer and no ribs or wings.
>
>Total torture

I thought I had a snappy rejoinder ... but I am lost for words at the sheer horror of it.