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> Your own example demonstrates that the EV version is better than the ICE version Better doesn't make it worth it. There are all sorts of tradeoffs involved

> Your own example demonstrates that the EV version is better than the ICE version Better doesn't make it worth it. There are all sorts of tradeoffs involved . Governments are asking their citizens a lot in terms of sacrifice. If it doesn't move the needle significantly it means tons of quality of life lost given the scale of this experiment. Exactly like COVID lockdowns. Were they worth it? It's still contentious. Given the scale of the costs of lockdowns "contentious" won't cut it. It should be more like "thank God we did it". The feeling should be at the equivalent of when the Cuban Missile Crisis ended. I don't know about you but I most certanely don't feel that. I feel the contentious nature of lockdowns but endured the certain and ample consequences of all of that.

ncmncm 4y ago
Civilization not collapsing would be a big benefit, but one hard to count. It would be worth a very great deal of present inconvenience and discomfort. That would only be perceptible much later. But like "Y2K", all the work that went into averting catastrophe looks wasted afterward. With plenty of people available to insist no catastrophe looms, it is hard to get people to do anything. About the only lever we have access to, pre-catastrophe, is that renewables are vastly cheaper than everything else we are using to generate power. We can only pray it will prove enough. So, things that make influential people more sensitive to electricity prices and less sensitive to gasoline prices help.