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These are edge cases that can be engineered around, and 12 years seems like plenty of time to do that. Carving out an exception won't make these people's lives
by babypuncher 4y ago
These are edge cases that can be engineered around, and 12 years seems like plenty of time to do that.
Carving out an exception won't make these people's lives much easier. Eventually enough people will have gone electric that the economics of fuel distribution begin to deteriorate, and these people out in the boonies end up paying even more exorbitant prices for gas and diesel.
We might as well rip the bandaid off quickly.
- sandworm101 4y agoAnd what? Give up personal mobility? Without cars/trucks, rural life stops. Good luck buying food in the cities if in the country farmers have to walk everywhere. EVs are not practical in our winters. The batteries would simply not survive without constant heating, which would defeat any carbon advantages they might have. And as for fuel delivery, cars are not everything. Trucks/boats/aircraft together consume vast quantities of fuels. They arent going away anytime soon. So the infrastructure will remain a while too.
- babypuncher 4y agoWhen did I say they would have to give up cars and trucks? I said these cold weather problems could be engineered around, just as they had to be for ICE vehicles.