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FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 10 months agoI’m saying build trams and trains, both require like no maintenance, are cheap to build and solve the most issues. It’s a better investment than EVs.
Comment on YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 10 months agoI’m saying build trams and trains, both require like no maintenance, are cheap to build and solve the most issues. It’s a better investment than EVs.
joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
You’re suggesting that teams and EVs solve the same problems. But they don’t.
EVs replace ICE vehicles. Public transit replace cars in areas that are dense enough to make them viable.
The reason public transit isn’t everywhere because they are expensive to build and maintain.
Yes build them, but suggesting that teams and trains are a replacement for EVs today is completely false and is only hurting your argument overall.
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Of course there are exceptions, there are people who live in the absolute ass end of nowhere and they should have a car but those people are a tiny minority. They are in fact such a minority it makes no difference if they drive an ICE car or an electric one when it comes to climate change.
The vast majority of people live in cities, towns, villages, etc. Hook those up with train tracks and if a city is big enough build trams in the city and you got 99% of the people covered, while reducing road maintenance budget to almost nothing, improving local air quality massively, reduce microplastics from tires to pretty much nothing, make noise pollution a thing of the past and reduce tailpipe emissions to a negligible amount.
joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
This is where I think you have a skewed picture of reality.
In North America 20% of people live in rural areas.
As much as I wish that was “vast majority” it isn’t.
Your simple view of public transit doesn’t line up with the realities in North America. I wish it did, but it doesn’t. And unfortunately your uninformed arguments are the fuel actual opponents of public transit use to justify their position.
It doesn’t help the cause to spread uninformed arguments
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I don’t live in the US. Are you saying 20% of all people in the US live outside any settlement?
Even if that’s the case that’s one country, it’s applicable to every other country.