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Originally Posted by KRS_SN
Environmental capitalism instead of wokeism. The ev is just a result of exploiting a percieved crisis to make millions of bucks. The real factors that affect pollution are hard to address let's go for the lowest hanging fruit(the commuter) and make billions in the process.
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And what is disturbing is that it's not even a very big fruit. US only accounts for 15% of the worlds CO2 production. All US transportation is only 27% of the US's total C02 production, and light duty cars are only 57% of that. We are going to solve a perceived crisis by upending multiple industries, force people to buy more expensive cars that they can't logistically support, and spend trillions of dollars that we don't have, and waste valuable natural resources to accommodate all of that. All to reduce CO2 production in an area that is 57% of 27% of 15% of the problem. (.15*.27*.57)= 2.3%. The energy replacement to fulfill this need still uses over half of it's input from CO2 production (carbon power) = half of 2.3% (.15*.27*.57) /2 = a little more than 1% change in the worlds CO2 problem.
Yah, it's kinda nutty.
Let people have EV's, for many they are great. Lets just not fool ourselves (or others) about what those EV's are accomplishing.