• Jeremy [Iowa]@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    At risk of smug, things like this really reinforce the arguments in favor of EVs.

    Oh no, petroleum is more expensive… anyway…

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        And that’s something thats impossible to change and great reason for why we should never stop using oil? Even if we were using 100% oil it’s converted to energy much more efficiently at large plants, and renewables are growing every day while oil is shrinking. I really don’t see the point you made here 💁‍♀️

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        1 year ago

        The electric car still has less emissions then an ICE, even if the electricity is from a coal power plant. The reason is simple: the plant is more efficient than the ICE and the whole chain to the BEV on the road is very efficient.

        Not to mention that there is no other way to transition away from oil. You have to start somewhere. Build more renewable sources and you automatically get cleaner cars too.

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        1 year ago

        Good thing some of us live in states where hard work has been done to change that. My power is 100% wind, solar, and hydro, and cheap too!

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        1 year ago

        Comments like this are why I blocked lemmygrad. Guess I shouldn’t have given you idiots another chance.

      • Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world
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        It’s not 80% of electricity it’s 80% of all energy consumed so transportation, home heating, and manufacturing all use fossil fuels. The electrical grid is about 60% fossil fuels. Thing is a lot of people who have an electric car also have solar panels and if you consume electricity before it enters the grid it doesn’t get counted in that statistics. I’m not saying it’s a high percentage but if you have solar panels and an electric car then it doesn’t matter what the grid is.