EVs still need the same infrastructure as ICE vehicles
Hmmm, I haven’t taken mine to a gas station in two years. I must be way overdue.
Now I know you’re moving the goalposts to roads when I was talking gasoline industry, but let me point out where I started
While I completely agree transit, and walkable cities are much better, EVs are not nothing.
More importantly I do live in a partly walkable town. I do use transit when I can. And yes I have the privilege of living in one of the few parts of the US where intercity rail is decent
Talking only about the gasoline industry when considering climate change is, at best, ineffective. What’s more, that’s exactly what the cartoon is calling out, i.e. touting the reduction in tailpipe emissions while ignoring all the myriad other ways that EVs are just like ICE vehicles. (Which includes large contributions to climate change.)
Gasoline industry is the worst offender, the single worst source of trouble. If we remove it alone, we will be fine with everything else, and there is no single thing we can do that will bring even comparable effect. Stopping meat farming, maybe, but that’s it. If we have to focus on something, and given all the political climate, we have to focus on something, there is nothing else we can focus on.
I don’t have all the math at hand, but I bet if we totally do the calculations, Netherlands level of public infrastructure but no EV will be at least comparable levels of destructive as American level of car-dependancy, but EV only.
Hmmm, I haven’t taken mine to a gas station in two years. I must be way overdue.
Now I know you’re moving the goalposts to roads when I was talking gasoline industry, but let me point out where I started
More importantly I do live in a partly walkable town. I do use transit when I can. And yes I have the privilege of living in one of the few parts of the US where intercity rail is decent
Talking only about the gasoline industry when considering climate change is, at best, ineffective. What’s more, that’s exactly what the cartoon is calling out, i.e. touting the reduction in tailpipe emissions while ignoring all the myriad other ways that EVs are just like ICE vehicles. (Which includes large contributions to climate change.)
Gasoline industry is the worst offender, the single worst source of trouble. If we remove it alone, we will be fine with everything else, and there is no single thing we can do that will bring even comparable effect. Stopping meat farming, maybe, but that’s it. If we have to focus on something, and given all the political climate, we have to focus on something, there is nothing else we can focus on.
I don’t have all the math at hand, but I bet if we totally do the calculations, Netherlands level of public infrastructure but no EV will be at least comparable levels of destructive as American level of car-dependancy, but EV only.