4 ms·

Strawman. 37000 people die each year in vehicular accidents, but somehow people think there's a benefit to using cars, and to use them without making them 3X a

Strawman. 37000 people die each year in vehicular accidents, but somehow people think there's a benefit to using cars, and to use them without making them 3X as expensive just to save perhaps half of those lives. So too do we continue to use gas appliances because they're relatively cheap, effective, and resilient, and if you want to convince us the harm is too great, then quantify it for our judgement.

ethanbond 4y ago
> if you want to convince us the harm is too great, then quantify it for our judgement. That's literally what TFA does. Dispute the data or the argument if you want. "This site looks like it doesn't like fossil fuels" is not disputing the data. It's "I suspect there's another side that's not represented [duh] and I therefore will dismiss this information out of hand." It's a terrible heuristic to get anywhere.
ryukafalz 4y ago
> 37000 people die each year in vehicular accidents, but somehow people think there's a benefit to using cars, and to use them without making them 3X as expensive just to save perhaps half of those lives. And each of those crashes is a tragedy. Surely you know that there are also efforts to make streets safer, and that other countries have been vastly more successful at it than the US? Traffic crashes were until very recently the leading cause of death among young people, and are still #2. We shouldn't just overlook that either!