Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption

• Boxtifer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s gonna help. There’s not an all out 1 solution.

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  • Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But don’t you see, unless there is one magical silver bullet solution that fixes everything then it’s all worthless and we should go back to dumping CFC’s into the atmosphere.

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    • FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We should defintely still make EVs, overall they are going to be better than ICE. We just shouldn’t force/subsidize everyone to have to buy and drive an EV like we did with ICE cars.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Electric trains might, but we’re even worse at building them than cars.

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    They can be built from acorn and twigs.

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are we? Diesel-ev hybrid is fairly effective and proven. Making a pure ev would just mean taking the diesel out, adding more batteries and installing electrical rail or over head trolley cables to charge them. Trains run on a schedule, so logistic planning should be straight forward.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are we?

      Recently, yes. California’s spent 16 years not building rail. The Gulf Coast states have been tearing their rail out and replacing it with highways for over a decade. The Upper Midwest has just kinda given up on doing anything useful, and just watched its transit infrastructure collapse.

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      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        My point is is that the tech is there. There’s just an unwillingness.

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      • eskimofry@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The problem is that highway advocates don’t solve the problem of “who’s going to pay for all this?”. The reason infrastructure in America is in disrepair is that funding for highways is supposed to be gotten from tolls and road taxes. But since everywhere in America is a freeway… there’s no funding for repairs.

        Expecting the Government budget to cover maintenance of infrastructure is wishful thinking… unless you’re also willing to agree that the military is allocated too much money.

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who says EV are going to fix climate change?

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• eskimofry@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ok then that means we have to consider the fact that Car-oriented zoning laws and construction are bad for our future. 15-minute cities and infrastructure to support alternative modes of transit for longer distances are the way forward.

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• MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes, but an easy target.

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