Carbon capture: Another problem for PHEVs?

The government's clean coal con-job?

Autobloggreen has an interesting post regarding America's energy problems today. Clean coal, largely achieved via carbon capture, it seems, might be more myth than reality according to a growing horde of carbon sequestration critics. And, even in the cases where carbon sequestration might work, its costs, well, simply might not be worth the cost compared to alternative technologies.

This comes off the heals of other studies suggesting that in areas still using old coal technology, plug-in hybrids could produce more CO2 than if just gasoline were used to power conventional vehicles.

None of this suggests, even for one second, that further development of plug-in hybrids or electric vehicles should be delayed. However, these studies do seem to suggest that America's energy problems will not be solved alone by plug-in hybrids, the Chevy Volt, or any other type of automobile.