earthdayOn Earth Day, April 22, 2009 Brockmann & Company published this edited version of Paul Brockmann’s 12th grade Economics report on the economic impacts of electric cars.

Expected to reduce demand for gasoline, electric cars will stimulate demand for electricity, shift the production of toxic emissions from streets and highways to power plants and create opportunities for new kinds of products, power plant construction and new forms of energy harnessing – tidal, wind and solar power.