• BezzelBob@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Can anyone give a legit reason as to why EVs are bad? Because all I’ve seen is “they don’t make cool BROOM BROOM noise” and “they’re bad for the environment” which is only true because of oil and gas companies bribing governments to restrict green energy infrastructure

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      6 months ago

      theres only two temporary reasons. 1. the environmental reason is less the gas vs battery situation, but more the EVs are heavy, and the biggest pollutant are car tires. this tied with US consumer obsession of SUV sized vehicles dont help.

      the other is not all places have an equivalent “gas tax” which is used for road maintainance usually for EVs since, well they dont use gas.

      both fixable problems but can be considered a problem

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        6 months ago

        Isn’t it also that sourcing the raw materials for the batteries results in a lot of pollution, and the charging is often provided by coal burning plants?

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          6 months ago

          Isn’t it also that sourcing the raw materials

          This also leads to a shit-ton of attendant neocolonial shitfuckery - but nobody in the US really cares about that.