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Car tires are made with synthetic rubber, which is made from oil.
by badpun 7mo ago
Car tires are made with synthetic rubber, which is made from oil.
- mindslight 7mo agoWith where the Trumpists want to take us, tires made out of carved stone will suffice. Non-EVs will be retrofitted with a hole in the floor for your feet.
- K0balt 7mo ago[dead]
- panzagl 7mo agoQuick google math says you get 6 tires from a barrel of oil vs roughly 20 gallons of gas. Unless EVs mean you change tires every 300 miles or so I think we're good.
- vel0city 7mo agoMy ICE vehicles go through many more pounds of gasoline than they do tires. A set of tires is ~100lbs of material. 50,000mi of gas on a 30mpg vehicle is 10,000lbs of gas.
- timbit42 7mo agoThe big concern is burning oil products into the atmosphere: that means fuels. Using oil to produce rubbers and plastics is less of a concern.