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People who buy and drive Teslas think they are a gift to humanity, because they are "saving the planet". They glibbly ignore the amount of fossil fuels that we
by gc22browsing 4y ago
People who buy and drive Teslas think they are a gift to humanity, because they are "saving the planet". They glibbly ignore the amount of fossil fuels that were consumed in order to produce their shining homage to their specialness and of course their lord, Elon Musk, on the pedestal.
- thebruce87m 4y agoCome on. I’m not an electric car driver, but it’s obvious that centralising the emissions is a necessary step towards containing or reducing them. And producing them now uses fossil fuels, but given critical mass of electric infrastructure and economy of scale for batteries then there will be a tipping point where the guy who drives the electric mining truck gets to work via his electric car. Without any progress in these directions we will always have emissions.