People arguing about the price of gas, but as soon as someone mentions driving an EV they’re “stupid” and woke

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    That’s Facebook for you. People love to complain about things that take them out of what they have gotten used to but the moment someone offers a possible solution they dig their heels in the sand.

    They’re essentially just shouting out and seeing how many people will absentmindedly agree and reaffirm their view point

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      Oh it’s a standard social media echo chamber, and I’m well aware that we’re in one here too. But at least here we aren’t saying that the gas prices are a conspiracy done by the dEMoCrAtS!! Of course to them the only solution is to… have big government regulate gas prices, god forbid they think about alternatives

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        I agree Facebook just specifically annoys me because it’s a lot of dumb posts put out without forethought.

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      Facebook is the worst social media site of all where boomers and racist people shouting at each other. The best one can do is to delete themselves.

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        I’d argue Twitter is worse because it seems more targeted and organized in a way. There’s also the layer of anonymity.

        The best one can do is to delete themselves.

        Unfortunately a lot of people still insistence on using it for school and work

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    Not defending them, but if I can’t afford a tank of gas I likely can’t afford a whole new car. Hell I can afford a tank of gas and I still can’t afford a new car.

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      For a while, with state and federal rebates, new EVs were ridiculously cheap but a lot of people didn’t realize it. My brother leased a Nissan Leaf for my niece for $100 a month. I realize leasing isn’t for everyone, but $100 a month for a car for a teenager is pretty damn reasonable until she can afford to buy something for herself.

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        Lots of them on Autotrader when I looked a week ago.

        The problem is, they still want $40k for a used EV.

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        And then you need to consider how much battery capacity is left, pretty sure that’s a really big cost to replace?

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          Unless you are buying one with over 200k miles (still likely 90% there), capacity is out something you have to worry too much about.

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    “BUT WHERE DO THEY THINK THAT POWER EVEN COMES FROM???”

    Well, if someone would spend two seconds thinking about it, renewable are a good investment. It’s not like we want to stop burning coal today, but this argument gets me everytime.

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      Plus, burning fossil fuels in a dedicated generator in optimal conditions, then converting that to electricity, transferring that electricity over the grid to an electric car generates less emissions than burning it straight in an ICE engine to convert it into kinetic energy. Even if you ignore all the fossil fuels that are burned during extraction, transport and conversion before it gets to your local petrol station.

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        Exactly. Even if you’re not using renewables to charge your EV, they’re still significantly more fuel efficient due to the gains you get from producing energy in a power plant instead of through a small engine. I read somewhere that an EV with a 300 mile range is using the same amount of fuel to charge as if you were burning 3 gallons of gasoline.

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      Yeah… The power for my EV comes from my solar panels. Both a great investment. Now that the electricity company is raising rates on electricity usage, I’m even happier with my decision.

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      The only thing coal has going for it is you can burn it when the sun is down and the wind has stopped. Solar makes more financial sense

      “On average, the marginal cost for the coal plants is $36 each megawatt hour, while new solar is about $24 each megawatt hour, or about a third cheaper.,Only one coal plant – Dry Fork in Wyoming – is cost competitive with the new renewables.”

      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/30/us-coal-more-expensive-than-renewable-energy-study

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    But gas prices are so high due to Biden lowering the supply by checks notes conditioning any expansion of renewable energy on first increasing the amount of federal land leased out for extraction of oil and gas many times over.

    Huh. Guess BOTH parties are lying about him. Who’da thunk that the senator from MBNA (second biggest credit card company before being bought by Bank of America) would be on the side of big business? 🤔

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          Big citation needed on “most” co2 reductions come from carbon capture. If you have it I’d be interested, I couldn’t find anything suggesting that. It’s a huge bill that carbon capture is just one small part of. I do agree in most circumstances it’s talked about right now it’s a bit of a scam, especially the idea you’re going to be able to pull it out of the air at very low concentrations. Capturing carbon from existing fossil fuel facilities where the concentration may be much higher (something like 13% in many cases as opposed to like 0.04% in normal air) is something more worth exploring. Unless you’re suggesting all fossil fuel facilities shut down overnight, exploring ways to make facilities release less carbon is important. The cited article makes a big point about how the power plant emitted more than it captured. But how much would it have emitted without any capture it conspicuously leaves out. Without any capture it would emit more I would assume. Certainly it sounds like those Shell executives lied about how much it was capturing and the US needs to do more, not disagreeing there.

          The inflation reduction act was still the most impactful climate act ever passed. You can argue to do more without pretending it was nothing. Dems wanted to do more as well, a lot of these compromises were to get one last senator to come along, and if we had more Dems in the senate they wouldn’t have done it. Or even a single fucking republican out of any of them of course who doesn’t want to actively destroy the earth. Save the most vicious attacks for the ones who deserve it most, not the ones actually trying to do something.

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      Basically they’ve been told to hate it. The oil industry has spent millions pushing all kinds of misinformation to make sure we wouldn’t move off oil, even if there are a million reasons beyond just global warming why it would be a great idea. We’ve known since the 70s that this would be an issue, and governments around the world have just all been ignoring the issue for half a century.

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        Yeah, at first it was the “glorified golf cart” angle, but when Tesla proved that wasn’t true, it turned into “they’re too expensive”, “ackthually they pollute more”, “rare earths”, etc… There will always be something.

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      Nearly 1 in 5 drivers or about 42 million people in the US can drive a stick. You have confused your peer group with everyone. Used manual cars are cheaper precisely because they are less in demand and cheaper to maintain to boot. Purportedly quality of automatic varies a lot which older cheaper cars being pretty shit. Remember when people are picking a car not everyone is picking from new mid tier new vehicles or last years models.

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      I’m one of those people, I guess, but I’m not such a Luddite that I don’t think electric is the way forward. Had to replace a very old car recently and low-end new was better than buying used. Bought a gas car that gets great fuel economy for a variety of very good reasons, but if I could have bought a Tesla made by Toyota/Honda, with huge range for economy car prices, I would probably have an EV.

      Also worth noting: owning an EV is harder if you don’t own a house you can install charging hardware in.

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      So what exactly is their rationale!?

      It’s what a liberal or, in our country, a “green” would do and therefore they do the exact opposite thing. Yes, that’s about it.

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      Idk if they’ll be any good, but I thought this was interesting as a manual car driver when I saw it.

      Toyota, however, has patented a way to provide the look and feel of a manual transmission in an electric car. … The car’s torque and performance will be altered as you “shift” to provide the feel of a gas-powered vehicle.

      https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/features/electric-manual-transmission

      I’d still switch to an EV either way once I have a way to charge it at home

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      I will miss my manual transmission car. What do you not understand? I have a Honda Accord and the manual is what made it actually fun to drive. Feels so much more like driving, more engaged with what I am doing. Even my kid who resisted learning to drive it now always wants to take my car everywhere. This is likely my last gas powered car, a 2014 I bought new, but yes I love driving a manual shift car, never have I bought an automatic. Also clutch & manual gearbox so much cheaper to fix. When the automatic transmission fails, the car is basically totalled, and it will fail eventually.

      I will miss my beloved manual shift car, yes.

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        Driving an EV is like driving a single speed manual, not an automatic, especially if it has any amount of performance. The throttle response is instantaneous, no waiting for the torque converter, shifting, or power building. Also, when driving in a high regeneration mode, letting off the pedal feels like downshifting a gear or two. It’s super engaging and the instant response feels so smooth and natural.

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    Got my 🅱️ig 🅱️rained takes here:

    1. In many use cases, EVs are worse for the environment

    2. Even in these cases, it might be better for the society in that pollution is no longer concentrated in towns and around roads but at power plants where mitigations can be centrally handled by solutions that can be made to scale

    3. In many cases, EVs are far inferior. In many cases, ICEs are far inferior.

    4. I wish I could afford an EV plox send monies

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        I think the poster above you is trying to say that the materials and operations involved in EV production are even worse than that of the ICE vehicles combined with the their post-manufacture emissions. As far as I understand, a completely electronic vehicle (not a hybrid) would produce no emissions of its own, compared to one with an internal combustion engine.

        But I understand equally little abort both.

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          EV is do produce fine particles from brakes and mainly tires, but no combustion involved emissions. But it’s still a great win, especially for the air quality in cities and with that, the total health impact for the population they cause.

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    What’s awesome about this is when you drive a hybrid. All your power comes from gas or regenerative braking, but it’s so efficient that it’s still painful to the average Republican

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      There’s no ‘or’, really. That kinetic energy you’re capturing with regen braking, you got that by burning gas. All your energy comes from burning gas.

      Unless it has a plug, it’s a gas car.

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    The first world lifestyle/“American Dream” of everyone owning a car and living in a nice house is unsustainable in the first world itself, nevermind a world of 8 billion people. EVs or no EVs. If we want to actually start tackling global warming, these people need to get used to the idea of public transit.

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      I agree with you, and I take public transit whenever possible, but I’m willing to compromise on them getting an EV if they at least stop driving big stupid trucks to get groceries from the supermarket

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        Yeah the big trucks suck and are pointless. Here in South Africa they keep making the Ford Ranger and Toyota Hilux bakkies bigger and bigger to try copy American trucks. Honestly only a matter of time before a Ford F-150 or Toyota Tundra model is available at a car dealership in South Africa. Also EVs won’t get popular here until rolling electricity blackouts are solved, and since they’ve been an issue for 15 years now, it’s not looking good.

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    EVs are for poor people? You mean these expensive cars that I couldn’t even charge at home because I would need a house to do so?

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    They think Gas is too expensive because of the red take and lack of drilling on federal lands (lack of new permits at least) I don’t care much about EVS either. I mean, they just take pollution from one place to another and they are better on the environment, but you have drive it for a few years for them to be better on the environment. They are not going to solve climate change.

    Public Transit is severely lacking, we need more trains and bicycle paths. Buses, yeah sure, why not. They are going to be diesel busses because Electronic busses don’t make that much sense either.

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      Yeah I’m gonna be anti drilling in public lands and national parks on pretty much every front there.

      And let’s remember that just even though a solution isn’t perfect, it doesn’t mean it’s a bad solution. EVs are not perfect. But they’re better than continuing to burn fossil fuels. Then if something still better comes along we can upgrade again. Gas powered cars were not the first form of transit and EVs won’t be the last form.

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        That saving of gas on each stage of removing those third party for cars.

        I don’t pretend to know all the answers, but don’t you think scalability is a problem? I mean, for the EVS. I love EVS alright, but I don’t think they are as scalable as we think they are. (Talking about mining minerals electricity and other stuff necessary for EVS here)

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      While you are right that EVs just move pollution from one place to another, that other place doesn’t have to be a traditional power plant. If we are able to transfer to green energy, like wind, solar, or nuclear, those cars suddenly become a lot better for the environment.

      As for drilling public lands, I strongly disagree. If we can build more green energy sources instead, we will become less reliant on oil and the prices might drop with lower demand. Drilling public land is a great way to ruin the area for years.

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        If we are able to transfer to green energy, like wind, solar, or nuclear, those cars suddenly become a lot better for the environment

        Most of the countries we get minerals from aren’t really stable, so I question how much investment in Green Energy we can actually do there knowing that ROI is not really guaranteed.

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          Sodium Ion batteries are entering the market now that solve all our problems with sourcing those battery minerals. Lithium batteries will only be needed for the small things like phones within a few years.

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            Sodium Ion batteries are entering the market now that solve all our problems with sourcing those battery minerals. Lithium batteries will only be needed for the small things like phones within a few years.

            cool! that’s some positive news! thanks

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      While yes they do move from one to another. Are you aware how stupidly inefficient car engines are and the amount of fuel used to transport the petrol/diesel to each and every gas station?

      That saving of gas on each stage of removing those third party for cars.

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        I know gas powered engines have been for a long time, but do you think there’s anything we can do to make it more efficient?

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          Not burning the gas up rapidly in monster trucks would be the best improvement we could do with gas vehicles. Massive square behemoths with 8-liter engines are not helping.

          Lighter cars with smaller engines and turbochargers, designed for sleek aerodynamic wind flow are what we can do to make gas engine vehicles more efficient.

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      EVs ARE a fad I think, hybrids are pretty cool as far as cars go. And that’s not too far, because personal cars are terrible in general and should be outlawed, but that’s besides the point. Otherwise I agree with pretty much everything you just said.

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        EVs are kind of a fad (although they are cool though)

        But, you lost me at personal cars should be outlawed. I think that would be disastrous for old folk and the economy