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If anything we should be decarbonizing faster and avoiding the situation where everyone just replaces their ICE vehicles with electric. Just because it's conven
by drekk 3y ago
If anything we should be decarbonizing faster and avoiding the situation where everyone just replaces their ICE vehicles with electric. Just because it's convenient to move 1-4 humans around in a couple of tons of metal doesn't mean it's feasible to allow at scale. Even allowing existing gasoline vehicles is continuing to let car manufacturers and fossil fuel companies externalize their costs to taxpayers.
- harimau777 3y agoUnfortunately, that would be difficult in much of the US. Things are just way too spread out for public transportation to be viable without unrealistically massive investment in high speed rail.
- TheLoafOfBread 3y agoIt will make the decarbonization slower, because people will be driving old cars for much longer.