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[โ€“] shirro@aussie.zone 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Norway is a petro state. Those EVs are green washing, paid for by exporting fossil fuel. Those EVs will all be broken in a few years and they will send them to land fill and buy another lot. Not half as smart as building public transport and liivible cities.

Australia could also be a petro state and own the profits from mineral extraction and invest it for our people but the risk of doing that is becoming addicted to fossil fuel revenue.

While I wish we had a bigger share of profits from our mineral wealth it's also a trap.

[โ€“] Tenderizer@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

EV batteries are nearly always recycled.