But, but, but the electric cars SAVE energy... right?!??!!
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I love how people think electric cars have zero emissions. Where do they think the energy comes from that charges them? I tell them the electric cars are really coal/natural gas cars.
That's not really true. While there is quite a bit of pollution from creating batteries and solar panels, alot of that can be fixed from advances in recycling and manufacture (though it is an actual problem at the moment, because those have not been considered sufficiently). But for actual charging of cars, if you charge during the day from solar stations (or batteries charged from solar panels) its basically zero emissions (again, not counting the manufacturing/eventual recycling issues).
But it is true as we really don't have solar charging stations, or if we do there are not many. The electric cars run on oil and natural gas. No way around that.
There are quite a few in CA. We have them at several places where I live; on campus, around town. I know people who have them in their homes. They are pretty trivial to set up if you have solar (everyone has solar), especially if you have battery backup already. I've seen quite a few Tesla ones in the Bay area, on highway 5 (runs N to S through CA). I've seen pictures of more in LA. I don't know. The infrastructure does exist, even if it's not ubiquitous.
The real problem with electric cars (batteries) and solar is really just the pollution from mining the minerals, the manufacturing and the recycling infrastructure. These are technologies that can be worked on.
I am neither pro nor anti electric in any meaningful way. I think its cool tech. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with it. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with petroleum. Both can advance their tech and make better, less polluting products. Both have people who lie about both their advantages and disadvantages.
The truth is, both can be made to work with minimal pollution. As for "muh carbon dioxide" I think that is pretty much a myth (at least in the scope of its effect), so the CO2 from either product is meaningless imo. Pollution IS a problem with both however, but that is a problem that is also solvable with advances in tech and infrastructure.
Then explain how bad mining for those batteries is for the environment. South Park nailed their smug asses.
Its bad because the people doing the mining are evil, not because it has to be bad.
All mining operations are Cabal owned. They don't give a fuck about our environment, they just want us to care. Its a path of control.
Mining could be a perfectly fine thing, without excess pollution (or child slave labor, etc.). Good recycling infrastructure could also be a thing.
There are many potential solutions to the problems with the tech. The tech is not the lie, the people doing all the bad shit are the lie.