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FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If only we had electric trucks hauling goods around the country

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  • Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    or electric trains :(

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    • hoch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Almost all modern trains are electric…

      …they just have a big diesel generator in the back powering it :P

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    • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think that’s probably a little more difficult for interstate runs

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      • Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        why? they are more fuel efficient than fleets of trucks, cheaper to build, run and maintain than roads, better for the environment by not soewing microplastics into the environment, and to top it off, move more stuff for less labor.

        look at china for examples of long distance train networks designed and deployed rapidly.

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  • vividspecter@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Trials are starting to happen, such as this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtqWG2kgOKE

    Like most countries, Australia is well behind China on this which already has a thriving electric truck industry.

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• prex@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, my wife has to punch herself in the smug each morning.

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• fizzle@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This comment is in all of these threads.

  The food you eat is produced and transported to you with diesel.

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  • nomecks@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re right. Better we did nothing.

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    • fizzle@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s not what I said at all.

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  • imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I really wish I had turned my backyard into a vegetable garden last fall

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    • fizzle@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is pretty much the same comment.

      Even if you drive an EV and grow 100% of your own food, every member of your community is going to be drowning in these costs.

      That means they have less money to spend at local businesses, and so on and so forth.

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