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Spoken by someone with enough money to have owned multiple Tesla's IIRC.

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toomuchtodo 4y ago
The comment was focused on those who can afford an EV but choose not to get one, not those who cannot afford one. Nuance. Consider it in the context of the comment above it, complaining that it takes a bit longer to charge than fueling a combustion vehicle. Citation 5 in my above comment even shows EVs to be 3-6 times cheaper to operate. We want to help the poor; enact a carbon tax and rebate scheme. Let wealthy carbon consumers buy low income folks EVs. They are unable to afford them on their own. I have a great deal of compassion for genuine hardship. I do not have compassion for voluntary suboptimal economic decisions by people of means out of a minimal amount of convenience sacrificed.
- timapplesauce 4y ago
  > I have a great deal of compassion for genuine hardship. The rapid increase in gas prices is causing a lot of genuine hardship. Not to mention the follow on effects of higher consumer prices for essentials like food.
- clouddrover 4y ago
  > I do not have compassion for voluntary suboptimal economic decisions by people of means out of a minimal amount of convenience sacrificed No, you have a lot of compassion for suboptimal economic decisions. For example, you advocate for charging infrastructure that only charges one brand of EV even though that is clearly a suboptimal economic decision that builds dumb infrastructure with less utility. Worse than that, you mock the low price of the Chevy Bolt even though it's a good hatchback with decent range for an EV. If you genuinely want to help the poor then you want to advocate for infrastructure that can charge all EVs regardless of brand. That way when people eventually buy one of the low price EVs of the world it can be charged just as easily as a high priced EV. Common infrastructure helps everyone, rich and poor alike. Brand exclusive infrastructure helps only the few.

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The comment was focused on those who can afford an EV but choose not to get one, not those who cannot afford one. Nuance. Consider it in the context of the comment above it, complaining that it takes a bit longer to charge than fueling a combustion vehicle. Citation 5 in my above comment even shows EVs to be 3-6 times cheaper to operate. We want to help the poor; enact a carbon tax and rebate scheme. Let wealthy carbon consumers buy low income folks EVs. They are unable to afford them on their own. I have a great deal of compassion for genuine hardship. I do not have compassion for voluntary suboptimal economic decisions by people of means out of a minimal amount of convenience sacrificed.

timapplesauce 4y ago
> I have a great deal of compassion for genuine hardship. The rapid increase in gas prices is causing a lot of genuine hardship. Not to mention the follow on effects of higher consumer prices for essentials like food.
clouddrover 4y ago
> I do not have compassion for voluntary suboptimal economic decisions by people of means out of a minimal amount of convenience sacrificed No, you have a lot of compassion for suboptimal economic decisions. For example, you advocate for charging infrastructure that only charges one brand of EV even though that is clearly a suboptimal economic decision that builds dumb infrastructure with less utility. Worse than that, you mock the low price of the Chevy Bolt even though it's a good hatchback with decent range for an EV. If you genuinely want to help the poor then you want to advocate for infrastructure that can charge all EVs regardless of brand. That way when people eventually buy one of the low price EVs of the world it can be charged just as easily as a high priced EV. Common infrastructure helps everyone, rich and poor alike. Brand exclusive infrastructure helps only the few.