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While I don't disagree, it's educational to visit a place like Delhi, India or Jakarta, Indonesia, which have terrible air pollution but are not particularly in
by thematrixturtle 4y ago
While I don't disagree, it's educational to visit a place like Delhi, India or Jakarta, Indonesia, which have terrible air pollution but are not particularly industrialized. The main culprits in both appear to be farmers burning their fields and emissions from vehicles, not factories.
- bombcar 4y agoAnd those places are where we should focus our efforts - an electric car in the USA may reduce carbon emissions/air pollution a bit, but that same amount of batteries used in vehicles in India would offset a much greater amount.
- dukeofdoom 4y agoThat's true, but the main reason is the lack of cadillac converters on their vehicles. Which generally only cost $1,000-3,000 per vehicle. Which is much less than a full electric car. So if they can't afford cadillac converters, how are they going to afford 40k+ electric cars?
- bombcar 4y agoThen perhaps we should buy catalytic converters for them - there are 300 million vehicles in India, so that would be about 900 billion dollars - is it worth it? Would the pollution reduction be that great? Probably a better use of a trillion dollars than the war on terror, at least from a pollution standpoint.
- jakear 4y agoBuy catalytic converters for them? Buy them for ourselves first - park a Prius in any big city overnight and you’ll observe the scarcity first hand.