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This is a bunch of fallacies that have been brought up again and again and have been addressed. The biggest canard is "If everybody switched to EVs tomorrow ou
by ebbv 11y ago
This is a bunch of fallacies that have been brought up again and again and have been addressed.
The biggest canard is "If everybody switched to EVs tomorrow our power grid couldn't handle!"
Yes and if everyone went outside right now and pooped in the street we'd all drown in shit. Neither scenario is actually going to happen.
The reality is that EVs are far, far more efficient than ICE vehicles. Not only that, they don't create all the secondary waste products like used engine oil, coolant, etc. LiOn batteries are highly recyclable.
Adoption of EVs has been and will continue to be gradual, and our power grid will continue to expand to handle the load.
Just as a personal anecdote, I currently have a Nissan LEAF and when we got it we expected our power usage to jump dramatically. It did not. But our savings on fuel (not to mention maintenance) did jump. Even with current cheap gas prices, it's still way cheaper to drive the LEAF than our 30mpg CR-V.
- jklinger410 11y ago>This is a bunch of fallacies that have been brought up again and again and have been addressed. Nailed it.
- Grishnakh 11y agoExactly correct. Just wait though, I said the exact same thing above and the author told me to "fuck off", and the HN hivemind is heavily down-modding any comments critical of this guy.
- ebbv 11y agoYeah wow, my comment had like +2 earlier today and now it's down to 0. Guess the dude called his friends in.
- Grishnakh 11y agoMy karma took a huge beating today: some people have been going through a bunch of my older comments and down-modding them. No kidding about the dude calling his friends in. This place is the worst echo-chamber I've seen lately, except maybe for /r/HillaryClinton.
- jacquesm 11y agoYou must have missed out on the HN policy against name-calling, you did that and then some and were - and are - completely off the mark, on top of that you refused to take it back and doubled down on it. If that caused your karma to nose-dive then that's the system working as intended, I did not bring in 'any of my friends'.
- Grishnakh 11y agoPolicy against name-calling? Isn't that the one you broke first by telling me to fuck off? My remarks weren't off the mark at all. Your article was unresearched bullshit regurgitating the same old stupid anti-EV points we've heard for years. And then you have the gall to downmod a crapload of my old, unrelated posts just to hurt my karma. Fuck you. You're a real sack of shit.
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- jacquesm 11y ago> Guess the dude called his friends in. Any more unsubstantiated and bull-shit accusations you'd care to make?