D’oh!

Via CNS News:

[A]ppearing with McCarthy, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said electric vehicles not only reduce fossil-fuel use, they have another important feature — and that is “much less noise.”

“And if we have much less noise in the urban environment, how can we integrate that into how we design communities and buildings? Maybe we don’t have to shut the outdoors out so much, because the outdoors is more attractive — cleaner and quieter. So I think there’s a tremendous opportunity here.”

But in response to a question, Moniz confessed that he does not drive an electric car: “My contribution is my driving about two-and-a-half thousand miles a year,” he said.