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federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

less is needed overall.

So yes. It does help

this is what i’m dubious about. just because less is burned in, say, passenger vehicles does not mean any less is produced or burned in some other industry. this article actually says that we made more oil this year than last.

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gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
But it does mean less was produced for and burned by the automotive industry

All other things equal if those EVs were ICE then even more oil would have been used for what should be obvious reasons

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- federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  then even more oil would have been used
  
  if the oil is in the ground, it can’t have been used.
  
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  - gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Do you think we literally use oil as we dig it up with no buffer?
    
    Or that oil extraction amount isn’t being constantly adjusted based on demand by every entity in charge of it?
    
    Or that if more ICE vehicles were on the road more oil would be needed?
    
    These are all very basic concepts
    
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    federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    i think there is no way to prove we would have dug up and burned any more oil than we did since we can’t prove a counterfactual. what we do know is, despite an increased use of electric vehicles, oil extraction increased.
    
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- federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  unless it actually decreased GHG emissions, it did no good. it’s rearranging the deck chairs.
  
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