• blazera@kbin.social
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    Renewable powerplant produces renewable energy.

    An EV is better than gas cars but it still may be using fossil fuel energy

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      Your comments hurt our brains. Are you implying that shifting the method of powering transportation to renewables is a bad thing or no better than putting gasoline into an internal combustion engine?

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        you’re getting hung up thinking EV automatically means renewable energy. investing in EV’s in no ways shifts the method of powering them. Investing in renewable energy does that.

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          You’re technically correct on the surface. But people who get an EV are also probably more likely to get solar in their roof to charge that EV. I think your point though is that some states (I think Idaho?) power homes with fossil fuels, and buying an EV there will give the illusion of making a difference when it’s really about the same.

          I don’t think most states are as bad as that though.

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            I think your point though is that some states (I think Idaho?) power homes with fossil fuels

            what? The US in general gets most of its electricity from fossil fuels by a huge margin.

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          So you’ve confirmed our worst suspicions about you. Good job.

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              lol. Weird hill to die on for you but whatever. Anyone with half a brain knows we have to transition to EVs so that renewables can power transportation. But I guess that concept is impossible for you to comprehend.

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                We dont have the renewables to power transportation. Theyre fossil fuel powered.

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                  lol my EVs are 100% powered by renewables. You know that renewables are now cheaper than traditional fossil fuels, right? It’s not 1995 anymore honey.

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      The term used is green energy effected areas. An EV can be run with green energy without any problem. A gas powered car can not. That is the key difference.

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      A guy who smokes 10 packs of cigarettes a day, and then switches 10 E-cigs is still harming himself with nicotine, and still paying money to those same Tobacco companies – but he’s no longer ingesting tar, and is slowly slowly weaning himself off the substance.