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I'm a nearly 50 year old dude and cars are awful because I have kids and want to leave them a better city and planet. They are massive sources of CO2 right now
by davidw 2y ago
I'm a nearly 50 year old dude and cars are awful because I have kids and want to leave them a better city and planet.
They are massive sources of CO2 right now.
Even electric cars produce a lot of particulate matter from tires.
They crowd out housing and businesses when we require their needs be addressed first and foremost.
It's not so much a matter of a binary choice either for most people. You can use a car less and still have one for that occasional hiking trip or something.
- trhway 2y agoDo you have a car? If you don’t - respect for putting money where you mouth is. If you do - what is the point of your glorious virtue signaling statement when your actions confirm what I said?
- mperham 2y agoJesus https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/036/647/Screen_Shot_2021-03-01_at_2.28.39_PM.png https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/036/647/Scr...
- trhway 2y ago>Jesus Not surprisingly that you mentioned it, preaching and enforcing virtues - let’s get rid of the cars - upon others while enjoying the opposite vice yourself - driving a car - is at the core of the Christianity.
- daedrdev 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I feel like you are really running against the spirit of HN with this comment.
- daedrdev 2y agoAnd electric cars still produce a lot of CO2 in manufacturing, to the point that though an electric car is a reduction in CO2, its on the same order of magnitude of an gas car for regular usage.
- epistasis 2y agoThat's not true at all. There's a bit more CO2 during manufacture, at the moment, but a single year of driving and the EV has caught up to a gas car on emissions. Given that lifetime of cars is multiple decades now, the savings are huge for EVs.
- daedrdev 2y agohttps://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/electric-emissions https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/electric-emissions I think I overstated my case, its not as bad as I thought.