• wheresmydanish@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Electric vehicle production is green energy in the same way that renewable powerplant construction is green energy. Both enable the US to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and move towards a more sustainable energy grid.

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      1 year ago

      Renewable powerplant produces renewable energy.

      An EV is better than gas cars but it still may be using fossil fuel energy

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        1 year ago

        Your comments hurt our brains. Are you implying that shifting the method of powering transportation to renewables is a bad thing or no better than putting gasoline into an internal combustion engine?

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          you’re getting hung up thinking EV automatically means renewable energy. investing in EV’s in no ways shifts the method of powering them. Investing in renewable energy does that.

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            You’re technically correct on the surface. But people who get an EV are also probably more likely to get solar in their roof to charge that EV. I think your point though is that some states (I think Idaho?) power homes with fossil fuels, and buying an EV there will give the illusion of making a difference when it’s really about the same.

            I don’t think most states are as bad as that though.

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              I think your point though is that some states (I think Idaho?) power homes with fossil fuels

              what? The US in general gets most of its electricity from fossil fuels by a huge margin.

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            1 year ago

            So you’ve confirmed our worst suspicions about you. Good job.

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                lol. Weird hill to die on for you but whatever. Anyone with half a brain knows we have to transition to EVs so that renewables can power transportation. But I guess that concept is impossible for you to comprehend.

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                  We dont have the renewables to power transportation. Theyre fossil fuel powered.

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                    1 year ago

                    lol my EVs are 100% powered by renewables. You know that renewables are now cheaper than traditional fossil fuels, right? It’s not 1995 anymore honey.

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        The term used is green energy effected areas. An EV can be run with green energy without any problem. A gas powered car can not. That is the key difference.

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        A guy who smokes 10 packs of cigarettes a day, and then switches 10 E-cigs is still harming himself with nicotine, and still paying money to those same Tobacco companies – but he’s no longer ingesting tar, and is slowly slowly weaning himself off the substance.