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Many have already pointed out numerous ways in which you might not actually be more environmentally friendly, so I'll refrain from that. Even if you assume your

Many have already pointed out numerous ways in which you might not actually be more environmentally friendly, so I'll refrain from that. Even if you assume your "exclusively" electric car doesn't pollute more, it still pollutes one way or another. Furthermore, perhaps you buck the trend, but every Tesla owning "person" I know also does an insane amount of travel both in the name of business and pleasure, releasing a ton or more of CO2 for each transatlantic trip. Rich smug people who drive Teslas probably pollute far more than some dude in the countryside with a gas guzzling pickup, at least he only drives it around in his small town and doesn't fly anywhere almost ever. Its probably best we all try to get off our holier than thou horses and acknowledge that we all are slaves to our wants and want a comfortable lives. Perhaps then we might be able to have a productive conversation on how to truly save this planet (as if the planet needs saving rather than ourselves).

lallysingh 7y ago
Do they drive more because they have Teslas, or would they drive the same amount in a fady guzzler?
- bluGill 7y ago
  They drive a lot. What they drive is always a new whatever the latest fad is. Sometimes it is a large suv, sometimes a prius, sometimesaa BMW now it is a Tesla. I decline to speculate what will be next, but there will be a next
  - polishdude20 7y ago
    So the question still stands. If people have to drive a lot, is it better they drive a Tesla? Or a 1991 ford pickup?
    - antasvara 7y ago
      Seems as though over the lifespan of the car, a Tesla is better for the environment. However, the point of the comment was that people who drive Teslas are offsetting their environmentally friendly car with a larger house, more air travel, and other things that wealthy people who can afford Teslas tend to do.
      - lallysingh 7y ago
        So the problem with Teslas is moral license to pollute?

lallysingh 7y ago

Do they drive more because they have Teslas, or would they drive the same amount in a fady guzzler?

bluGill 7y ago
They drive a lot. What they drive is always a new whatever the latest fad is. Sometimes it is a large suv, sometimes a prius, sometimesaa BMW now it is a Tesla. I decline to speculate what will be next, but there will be a next
- polishdude20 7y ago
  So the question still stands. If people have to drive a lot, is it better they drive a Tesla? Or a 1991 ford pickup?
  - antasvara 7y ago
    Seems as though over the lifespan of the car, a Tesla is better for the environment. However, the point of the comment was that people who drive Teslas are offsetting their environmentally friendly car with a larger house, more air travel, and other things that wealthy people who can afford Teslas tend to do.
    - lallysingh 7y ago
      So the problem with Teslas is moral license to pollute?