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Used EV sales are on the rise and could theoretically replace ICE cars, but that obviously isn't very elastic and also relies (in the US) on foreign lithium.
So seconded: get fucked, car infrastructure, you absurdly wasteful source of energy dependence.
ok what are ICE cars LOL
electric cars also aren’t always the best if the electricity is generated by coal or something
Internal Combustion Engine, if memory serves.
once more: FUCK ICE!
Chinga la migra!
electric cars also aren’t always the best if the electricity is generated by coal or something
Actually untrue. Because internal combustion engines (ICEs) are so inherently inefficient, even an EV powered 100% by electricity from a coal-fired plant (accounting for electrical transmission loss) comes out on top – and that assumption is ridiculously unrealistic.
The carbon cost of producing the EV is higher though, but yeah long term still better as long as you use it for like 5 years and don't get a new one whenever it comes out like it's an iPhone.
You still use coal for power like it's the 1800s? Solar panels are pretty cheap at this point.
Somehow, Trump is doing more to push renewables than any other president.
I have a phev car, and I almost never charge it - 2.5h of charging and going to parking garage to unplug was too much of a cost to be offset by "almost free" 50km of range. Guess who is charging the car now?
Internal Combustion Engine cars.. ie ~~carbohydrate~~ hydrocarbon burners.
I think you mean hydrocarbon*
yeah you want a carbohydrate-burning vehicle you get a bicycle
Fair. I am foreign, we call it benzine.
Benzene is a type of hydrocarbon, so neither is wrong.
True
So Italian cars? If only I could put pasta in my car, instead of gasoline...
Fuck yeah
I think it only affects 20% of supply globally, so why can't we adapt?
Because capitalism is not designed around planning for events like this. Global trade is meant primarily for profits of the capitalist class. This means they remove redundancies that would provide stability to maximize profits.
This is a very simple explanation. But it's why there is nothing in place prepared for this.
"Adapting" just be further capital consolidation as the working class suffers all of the losses and the capitalist class is protected in their bubble. They don't plan for events like this, because they are able to whither the storm.
Their wealth is not measured in dollars. Their wealth is a reflection of how much more power they have over the working class of the world. Events like this only serve to solidify that power unless the working class of the world fights back.
Pretty depressing hearing the media about it here. Countless people were killed in missile strikes across the middle east today, now we talk about the real issue, petrol prices have gone up slightly.