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EVs aren’t wasteful. The US alone consumes 9 million gallons of gas a day. It’s not sustainable. If we don’t transition in the next fifty years no one will be d
by linotype 2y ago
EVs aren’t wasteful. The US alone consumes 9 million gallons of gas a day. It’s not sustainable. If we don’t transition in the next fifty years no one will be driving except for the extraordinarily wealthy.
- yaksha 2y agoDo you have references backing up the claim of such gas consumption not being sustainable?
- gambiting 2y agoWhat do you mean? You do know our oil supplies are finite, right?
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- linotype 2y agohttps://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/ https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc... Oil is made over millions of years and we’re on track to deplete it in under 200 years. We’ll never completely deplete it because the oil that’s left will be uneconomical to extract, but that’s functionally the same thing.
- baggy_trough 2y agoThey said the same “50 years to go” thing in the 70s. Yes, of course the naturally occurring supply is finite. But we don’t know where the limit is.
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