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Consumer gas vehicle make up a TINY fraction of the cause of greenhouse emissions worldwide. Everyone changing to EVs isn't going to fix anything, especially wh
by dcchambers 10y ago
Consumer gas vehicle make up a TINY fraction of the cause of greenhouse emissions worldwide. Everyone changing to EVs isn't going to fix anything, especially when that electrical power can come from dirty power plants.
The big changes need to come from agriculture, commercial, and industrial industries. The world also needs to quickly phase out coal and gas power plants and switch to all renewable so new "green" electric vehicles are actually better for the environment.
- geoka9 10y ago> Consumer gas vehicle make up a TINY fraction According to [1], transportation is 26% of greenhouse emissions, of which over half is passenger cars and light-duty trucks. [1] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
- dcchambers 10y agoThose are US emissions only. What about China? India? The EU? As you can also see from that report, 30% of emissions come from electricity generation. If we all switch to EVs, expect that % from consumer vehicles to just flip to electricity. That can't be fixed until all our electricity is 100% renewable.
- i2amsam 10y agoIt can be improved as soon as average electricity generation is cleaner than internal combustion engines, which it is today.