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It's easy to ignore where your power's coming from when your vehicle's not burning fuel-- in the US, ~40% from coal and ~30% natural gas. Morality fades away w
by Scaevolus 13y ago
It's easy to ignore where your power's coming from when your vehicle's not burning fuel-- in the US, ~40% from coal and ~30% natural gas.
Morality fades away when the results occur at a distance. Compare plugging into a socket to pumping gas, or buying cuts of meat to slaughtering an animal.
- ihh 13y agoRight now gasoline-powered vehicles are a problem along with burning coal and natural gas. At least by replacing gasoline-powered vehicles with electric we solve one issue and focus can be directed to how we generate that electricity.
- sp332 13y agoCentralizing power production, even in a coal-burning plant, is better for the environment than burning fuel locally (and extremely inefficiently) in a helicopter.