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Why is it so hard to admit or understand that the transition hasn’t happened yet at critical mass scale because the technology is more expensive and not equal o
by newsclues 2y ago
Why is it so hard to admit or understand that the transition hasn’t happened yet at critical mass scale because the technology is more expensive and not equal or better than ICE for consumers?
When a product is better and cheaper, inertia is overcome and consumers switch!
Go look up the historical transitions of fuel sources!
- OKRainbowKid 2y agoThis only works if all externalities (e.g. global costs of greenhouse gas production, pollution,...) are correctly priced in.
- PlunderBunny 2y agoBy that logic also, everyone would by expensive razors and cheap razor blades because they would see that it costs less in the long term than cheap razors and expensive blades.