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GasolineIsForHobbies
gasolineisforhobbies

Pundits mocked it. Elizabeth Warren laughed it off to her face.

Not to mention if we had widespread, convenient public transportation running on renewable energy, we might not need to ban gas cars to make a significant impact. Then again, even nations with great public transportation nationwide still have high car ownership.

It is possible to find alternatives and people are looking for just that. At least now some people are recognizing the blind exploitation of the past isn’t a sustainable way forward. Whether they win out or the typical greed of human parasites does, time will tell. I don’t know people who claim EVs are a completely

I see PHEVs as being the best of both worlds from a usage point of view. Most days, I drive less than 30 miles. But then every now and then, life happens and I put an insane amount of miles on a car. When emergencies happen, the ability of just jumping in a car and taking off without worry if the gas tank is full or

Don’t forget about the Mustangs that would trample pedestrians... history repeats itself.

One can love cars and still have a broad perspective. 

Not this again. Lithium ion batteries don’t need to use rare earth elements (it’s the Nimh batteries in hybrids that do).

Read histories of those eras— cities were LITERALLY covered in shit. Every city, no matter how beautiful or advanced, was a fetid cesspool when it rained, and a shit-dust covered mess when dry. Rich or poor, you never escaped the smells— or the disease.

Welp! EVs are bad too. Guess its time to ban cars.

That’s what I’ve been saying, why are we rushing into this when a hybrid solution is best right now. At least make models mandatory with 100miles of electric range. That’s enough for most people to commute to work and back on a single charge. This would eliminate “range anxiety” and allow time for infrastructure and

PHEVs are fantastic for a particular use case, but lots of people don’t fit in that use case. I spent $50 on gas in all of 2020 for my PHEV Pacifica.

Reminds me how city dwellers at the turn of the 20th century felt gas-powered cars and trucks were a godsend at stopping pollution.

I will once again point out that a plug in hybrid gets 90% of driving accomplished on electric, while using 20% of the battery. Using current available tech it will go much farther environmentally than making 20 million electric only cars that have 400 miles of range. While, yes you are hailing around a motor and

The EV question isn’t good vs bad. EVs are the lesser of two evils.

Sheep farming is as GHG intensive as cattle farming. Poultry and pork is much better. Pork is potentially the best if you feed the pigs food waste. 

Fundamentally the Republican /right wing have no answer for either Covid 19 or Global Warming because both of these crises require collective action. If you believe that collectivism is the devil then you will never be able to solve this type of problem.

Most people SAY they care about fuel economy - but they don’t care much. 22mpg may be better than 12, but it’s still awful.

I’ve carved back my vehicle travel considerably. I don’t go out unless I absolutely have to. So it’s a wild to me that we’ve only seen the smallest dent in emissions growth.”

This just proves how little automotive traffic adds to our global carbon footprint. Yes, it adds some, but there are some major greenhouse gas

I’m guilty of this, but c’mon, this is also a huge over-simplification.

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