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Why? Some romantic attachment viz Red Barchetta? The ICE has literally been the engine of humanity’s doom.
by revscat 5y ago
Why? Some romantic attachment viz Red Barchetta? The ICE has literally been the engine of humanity’s doom.
- yakshaving_jgt 5y agoI think some ICEs are indeed beautiful, and that beauty is gone with all-electric cars. I think there's no beauty at all in any of the Teslas, which I understand is tantamount to heresy on a website like this. I also prefer a less accurate and less featureful automatic mechanical wrist watch to any kind of "smart" watch.
- kergonath 5y agoSome of them truly are. But we need to let go of that beauty and keep it in museums, alongside also beautiful old steam engines, for the sake of our future.
- yakshaving_jgt 5y agoI don't get it. What proportion of the ICE emissions is caused by people who appreciate ICEs recreationally? Surely — like any other optimisation process — you would start with the greatest offenders, i.e., passenger aircraft, road freight, and the cars driven by people who don't actually want to drive cars in the first place.
- revscat 5y agoThe system needed to support their narcissism — refineries, drilling operations, finance, war, and the emissions caused by them all — are the more significant problem.
- kergonath 5y agoThe industry and infrastructure supporting this, from drilling, extracting, transporting, refining, and distributing products from oil needs to disappear. Once it is done, some people will keep them around, sure, and that’s not necessarily a problem. But it will be impractical to do for most people, like for the working- and middle-class people who enjoy driving and good engineering.