You're a statist if you think the government should be in anybody's business, including monitoring what source of power they are using. You're a moron for assuming that everyone driving electric cars is doing it to "claim they're green." I do it because the total lifetime operating cost is less than half of that for a gasoline car. I have saved over $25,000 in the last 11 years. I would still do it if it was worse than gas for pollution.