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@Slacking@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
The cheapest Tesla battery is 5k. The average American spends 2k a year on gas. You have to budget for gas for 3 years to have the price of your battery. Gas will keep costing you forever. The batts are rated for 200 000 km, and there are warranties if they start losing their charge too early so it’s very hard to have to pay for a replacement before you come into your money.
Its impossible to not come out on top if you factor in the gas, it just seems like a no brainer to me. I haven’t seen your other comments, I just now the reasons you listed under mine simply aren’t valid.
If you can’t afford a new vehicle, that’s completely fine. The used market for EVs is just not good.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
How much money do you spend in gas every ten year? Do you really think it’s less then a new battery? Not to mention the price of batteries are dropping like a stone.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
Ice vehicles still need mining to produce. The one time cost is practically the same and quickly becomes unimportant when you compare the cost of running them. It’s fine if you want to keep using your old vehicle or if the only vehicle you can afford is the cheapest ICE, but buying an ICE vehicle when there are evs at the same price literally means you are part of the problem. Whatever extra cost there is after that in terms of battery replacement pales in comparison to the constant cost of gas so it isn’t a valid reason.
Do not minimize the effects of constantly burning gas. It is more than not ideal, it is leading to a complete collapse of our ecosystem.
Do you close your eyes every year whenever a new spill happens, or another thousand acres get burned? Call me when the tech industry is causing shit like that. Not that they aren’t doing bad things, but saying “what about them” when the crimes of the oil barons is soon much greater is farcical.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
Building a carless society will take time but we need to get rid of gas right now. The difference of emission for the use and manufacturing of an EV is absolutely not close to the cost of use and manufacturing of an ice vehicle PLUS literally burning gallons just to move it.
Oil companies, their assets and the assets of the barons who own them should be violently seized and used to offset the cost of what they created. Until that happens, we will have to suffer a bit or we will be stuck suffering so much more probably sooner than we think.
- Comment on Corvids... 11 months ago:
Crows laying traps for other birds would be wild.