ICE v Electric: Cost and Emissions

[TheGreatAbyss]

A straight up carbon tax would be a better approach. It would economically incentivize both industry and consumers to opt for cleaner choices, be much simpler to implement, and the revenue generated could be put back into clean energy investments.

Unfortunately raising taxes is politically unfeasible so we have this instead.

 

[Tjf1967]

Carbon credit indulgences haven't done much to lower CO2.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/corporate-climate-watchdog-document-deems-carbon-offsets-largely-ineffective-2024-05-09/

Might make ya feel good and let some folks off the hook.

I'm many cases it was. Electric cars are not one then. You have a problem with clean air? Tesla would have been gone without them and without Tesla we don't have an EV industry.

 

[tirolski]

You have a problem with clean air?

Nope.
I don’t try to visit cities.
Biggest clean air problem around here recently is when folks manured the fields.
Got milk?

 

[Harvey]

I think the Amazon EV delivery trucks are brilliant for use here in NJ.

They are made for stop-and-go. And compared to a UPS truck they have a much lower center of gravity. I see women driving these things, and slinging them around pretty good.

 

[Brownski]

I see women driving these things, and slinging them around pretty good.

Dude. Anybody that saw seasons 2 & 3 of BJ and the Bear knows that women make great truck drivers. SMH

 

[tirolski]

I think the Amazon EV delivery trucks are brilliant for use here in NJ.

They are made for stop-and-go.

When stopped they shut off with no idling FTW.

 

[Andy_ROC]

I was chatting briefly with an Amazon driver at my house and asked him about the EV. He said he really enjoys driving them and the charge lasts all day without issue.

 

[Harvey]

Dude. Anybody that saw seasons 2 & 3 of BJ and the Bear knows that women make great truck drivers. SMH

I was throwing no shade bro

 

[Campgottagopee]

A straight up carbon tax would be a better approach. It would economically incentivize both industry and consumers to opt for cleaner choices, be much simpler to implement, and the revenue generated could be put back into clean energy investments.

Unfortunately raising taxes is politically unfeasible so we have this instead.

The manufacturing of EVs emits substantially more CO2 than ICE. It could backfire (pun intended).

 

[TheGreatAbyss]

That is true, but unless you live in Kentucky, EVs quickly make up the difference in a few years