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I have no issue at all with the appropriate level of investment in electric buses. Investment in public transit in general is besides the point. It’s economic
by zaroth 9y ago
I have no issue at all with the appropriate level of investment in electric buses.
Investment in public transit in general is besides the point. It’s economic fact that paying more for an electric bus and building the infrastructure to support them is more justifiable and will provide better ROI in China where the pollution is 5x more deadly.
If your metric is spending dollars efficiently to save lives, there’s better ROI in the US by spending the money elsewhere.
- danans 9y ago> If your metric is spending dollars efficiently to save lives, there’s better ROI in the US by spending the money elsewhere. It's massively oversimplifying the trade-off to reduce it to a single metric, and it proposes a false choice. Why not also consider reducing congestion, reducing local-air-pollution related respiratory conditions, etc? And compared to the known types of huge government expenditures that might be doing actual harm to some subset of citizens (i.e. lives lost in wars of questionable value) why point the finger at electric buses?