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Justin Calka

I am working with Jackson on a project about "environmentally friendly" cars.  We are researching if electric and hybrid cars are actually that much better for the environment.  We have already found a lot of information about this topic.  We discovered that the way electric cars and hybrid vehicles are made is actually worse than how gas powered cars are manufactured.  We also found a lot of online articles on this topic, and were able to extract a lot of valuable information from them.  At this point in time we know that electric and hybrid cars have a more harmful manufacturing process, but they are actually cleaner in the long run.  We have to do more research into this though because be do not know if this is accurate.  We don't know if the studies conducted factored in the way we make power (mostly by burning coal and fossil fuels).  I think that we are going to have our comic about how car companies advertise and portray their electric and hybrid cars as being really environmentally friendly, but in reality they are not as good as people think.