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Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Yeah, well, there’s no oil in Europe either, so ICE cars are even worse for a self-sustaining Europe (at least Lithum is only consumed once for an EV car, whilst oil is need all the time for ICE cars)

Your entire “argument” is one big cherry picked excuse.

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REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

there’s no Oil in Europe either

Confused European noises

tradingeconomics.com/…/crude-oil-production?conti…

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partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Yeah, well, there’s no Oil in Europe either,

C’mon. I’m a dumb American, but even I know without looking it up about Norway’s vast petroleum production as well as the North Sea petroleum platforms off the coast of Scotland.

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Atomic@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m not arguing for oil. Yet the current production costs for lithium batteries, compared to their lifecycle, rivals that of combustion propulsion. That doesn’t mean we should stop researching and finding better methods. But it’s far from as “environmentally” friendly as you think it is.

Oh, and Europe have oil. Plenty of it. Where would you like start? The coast outside Norway? The vast natural gas reserves in western Russia? The ocean outside of Scotland, maybe it just happenes to be a shit ton of oil under Greenland which is 100% unrelated to why Trump wants to own it.

I’m still not arguing for or against oil. I’m saying Europe isn’t following the US, and Europe isn’t interested in following China either. Europe is interested in carving out sustainability for themselves without US or China.

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