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Oil is scaring me from a macroeconomic standpoint, and from a pollution standpoint but we are going to need it for a long while. Investments are being made into
by datavirtue 3y ago
Oil is scaring me from a macroeconomic standpoint, and from a pollution standpoint but we are going to need it for a long while. Investments are being made into gasoline engines and they are paying off. The reliability and maintenance concern me with all these new clean sheet designs but the fuel efficiency is crazy good compared to previous generation engines.
I'm driving an F-150 that gets 1989 Nissan Pulsar mpg in real world operation. It can carry my whole family plus 2000lbs extra in the bed. It can tow 10k lbs when I need it to, and I do often. Insane.
There is a heavy cost in extra maintenance however, and some people have really gotten screwed when the maintenance has not been followed or the newly designed transmissions and engines fail before 100k miles.
Point being, you go fucking with oil and gas markets and people will be suffering and dying in the real world as a result. For some reason this is being ignored. And no, no one is going to take one for the team so future generations can...blah blah blah. Ain't gonna happen.