• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Just wait until we can’t afford gas any more … everyone will start bicycling, running, walking and using public transit and asking for trains like it was the logical thing to do all along.

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      1 month ago

      More likely they will beg the government to heavily subsidize gasoline or they will beg the government for a heavily subsidized EV.

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        1 month ago

        Then wait a little longer until we get to the point where gas is so expensive that even subsidized fuel is no longer affordable.

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      I hate how this has obviously been coming for decades and yet they still refuse to listen. Even if someone doesn’t believe in climate change, oil is non renewable. That’s just how fossil fuels work

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        Fossil fuel is renewable … we just have to wait millions of years for it renew itself

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 month ago

        and biofuels can be significantly cheaper, a sane actual conservative who genuinely prefers combustion engines should be championing biodiesel cars.