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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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Originally Posted by ASAP
Considering there is 0 Aviation environmental regulation, private jets have no limitations, nor do really cargo ships, we have no real rail transport in this country and 62% of the US power production is from fossil fuels, I would say that is accurate... it's crazy the govt would support this tech without looking at the bigger picture.
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Originally Posted by chad86tsi
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.
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Couldn't agree with these statements more. I still say we should just abolish the entire cruise ship industry and see what kind of reduction in emissions that yields. There's no worse or more gluttonous way to travel in the 21st century, IMO. The loss in jobs would not be that great, and people would still travel to many of the destinations anyway, they would just use air or rail.