Just witnessed this meeting of the minds on FB

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

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.

'The worlds changing and change scares me!'

"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.

Republican moral compass makes an excellent ceiling fan

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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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

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

Is Elon Musk good or bad in their eyes then?

Put the batteries in homes and save so so much more carbon.

https://youtu.be/SiRzpKWshwU?feature=shared

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.

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?

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.

It's possible to have both opinions.

The solution is cheap gas. Covers all points, unfortunately we don't live in a world where the oil conglomerates care about you, so we get the expensive gas.

keep this shit out of here. ! politicalmemes@lemmy.world exists.

(And I personally blocked it)

Gas is too expensive!

EVs are not ready for the broad market. Sure, they work fine for getting to work and running some errands, but I wouldn't trust going on long road trips with them yet. Plus, changing the batteries when they wear out is wayyyyy too expensive, might as well buy a new vehicle at that point.