• ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I’m sorry but if you’re drilling and selling massive amounts of oil I don’t care how many electric cars you drive. All that oil’s on you.

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      4 hours ago

      Some gas stations, mostly ones without the store, are closing in saturated areas but most are still there just with charging stations in the lot next to the pumps.

  • GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Please tell me they didn’t buy Teslas.

    Edit: also “98 diesel cars were registered” which are worse than petrol cars. Still very low numbers.

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    20 hours ago

    WOW, that’s truly amazing. That rate keeps up for long enough, they’ll replace almost everything for electric.

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      19 hours ago

      That’s what happens when you make it cheaper. Everyone else has dropped subsidies.

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        16 hours ago

        You don’t even need to subsidies electric. You just need to tax all carbon and pollution at the actual cost to society.

        The only reason petrol is preferred elsewhere is due to the lack of infrastructure. You can get petrol/gas everywhere. Charging your car is less reliable and needs effort to find. While it’s not really a problem for most people’s driving habits day to day, it’s a perceived problem.

        As energy prices continue to rise and solar continues to drop, it will become more and more economical to have electric car and solar charging.

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    18 hours ago

    I was optimistic for a while that we could be dragged kicking and screaming into the future, and the scary part is that musk made it possible. At this point I don’t expect that news from the us in my lifetime