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I feel like a broken record at this point, but even if a large part of passenger cars move to electric, industrialized countries still consume incredible amount
by mxschumacher 4y ago
I feel like a broken record at this point, but even if a large part of passenger cars move to electric, industrialized countries still consume incredible amounts of fuel for: all planes, ships, trucks, freight trains, plastics, most fertilizers, heating, electricity production, road building etc
- danans 4y agoThere are emerging/existing solutions for many of these use cases > planes Sustainable aviation fuel, synfuels > trucks, Hydrogen fuel cells freight trains, Batteries, renewable diesel, synfuels > heating, Heat pumps > electricity production Outside of some remote islands petroleum is hardly used for electricity production.
- reidjs 4y agoOk? What does that have to do with EVs? Those are all different problems to solve. You can’t say we shouldn’t partially focus on fixing a problem because it doesn’t fix every single problem we have.
- mxschumacher 4y agoEVs lower dependence on oil, but we'll have to keep begging Saudi Arabia and many similar countries, which was the mistaken assumption of the comment I am responding to
- nasmorn 4y agoTrains are electric in Europe for 50 years now.
- mxschumacher 4y agoFreight rail, not passenger