Yeah, my wife has to punch herself in the smug each morning.
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FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m bloody happy to have an EV
prex@aussie.zone 1 day ago
fizzle@quokk.au 1 day ago
This comment is in all of these threads.
The food you eat is produced and transported to you with diesel.
nomecks@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
You’re right. Better we did nothing.
fizzle@quokk.au 1 day ago
That’s not what I said at all.
imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I really wish I had turned my backyard into a vegetable garden last fall
fizzle@quokk.au 1 day 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.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 day ago
If only we had electric trucks hauling goods around the country
Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
or electric trains :(
hoch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Almost all modern trains are electric…
…they just have a big diesel generator in the back powering it :P
ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I think that’s probably a little more difficult for interstate runs
Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours 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.
vividspecter@aussie.zone 21 hours 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.