People arguing about the price of gas, but as soon as someone mentions driving an EV they’re “stupid” and woke

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    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

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      Oh it’s a standard social media echo chamber, and I’m well aware that we’re in one here too. But at least here we aren’t saying that the gas prices are a conspiracy done by the dEMoCrAtS!! Of course to them the only solution is to… have big government regulate gas prices, god forbid they think about alternatives

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        I agree Facebook just specifically annoys me because it’s a lot of dumb posts put out without forethought.

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      Facebook is the worst social media site of all where boomers and racist people shouting at each other. The best one can do is to delete themselves.

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        I’d argue Twitter is worse because it seems more targeted and organized in a way. There’s also the layer of anonymity.

        The best one can do is to delete themselves.

        Unfortunately a lot of people still insistence on using it for school and work

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    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.

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    “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.

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      Plus, burning fossil fuels in a dedicated generator in optimal conditions, then converting that to electricity, transferring that electricity over the grid to an electric car generates less emissions than burning it straight in an ICE engine to convert it into kinetic energy. Even if you ignore all the fossil fuels that are burned during extraction, transport and conversion before it gets to your local petrol station.

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        Exactly. Even if you’re not using renewables to charge your EV, they’re still significantly more fuel efficient due to the gains you get from producing energy in a power plant instead of through a small engine. I read somewhere that an EV with a 300 mile range is using the same amount of fuel to charge as if you were burning 3 gallons of gasoline.

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      Yeah… The power for my EV comes from my solar panels. Both a great investment. Now that the electricity company is raising rates on electricity usage, I’m even happier with my decision.

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      The only thing coal has going for it is you can burn it when the sun is down and the wind has stopped. Solar makes more financial sense

      “On average, the marginal cost for the coal plants is $36 each megawatt hour, while new solar is about $24 each megawatt hour, or about a third cheaper.,Only one coal plant – Dry Fork in Wyoming – is cost competitive with the new renewables.”

      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/30/us-coal-more-expensive-than-renewable-energy-study

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    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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          Big citation needed on “most” co2 reductions come from carbon capture. If you have it I’d be interested, I couldn’t find anything suggesting that. It’s a huge bill that carbon capture is just one small part of. I do agree in most circumstances it’s talked about right now it’s a bit of a scam, especially the idea you’re going to be able to pull it out of the air at very low concentrations. Capturing carbon from existing fossil fuel facilities where the concentration may be much higher (something like 13% in many cases as opposed to like 0.04% in normal air) is something more worth exploring. Unless you’re suggesting all fossil fuel facilities shut down overnight, exploring ways to make facilities release less carbon is important. The cited article makes a big point about how the power plant emitted more than it captured. But how much would it have emitted without any capture it conspicuously leaves out. Without any capture it would emit more I would assume. Certainly it sounds like those Shell executives lied about how much it was capturing and the US needs to do more, not disagreeing there.

          The inflation reduction act was still the most impactful climate act ever passed. You can argue to do more without pretending it was nothing. Dems wanted to do more as well, a lot of these compromises were to get one last senator to come along, and if we had more Dems in the senate they wouldn’t have done it. Or even a single fucking republican out of any of them of course who doesn’t want to actively destroy the earth. Save the most vicious attacks for the ones who deserve it most, not the ones actually trying to do something.

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      Basically they’ve been told to hate it. The oil industry has spent millions pushing all kinds of misinformation to make sure we wouldn’t move off oil, even if there are a million reasons beyond just global warming why it would be a great idea. We’ve known since the 70s that this would be an issue, and governments around the world have just all been ignoring the issue for half a century.

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        Yeah, at first it was the “glorified golf cart” angle, but when Tesla proved that wasn’t true, it turned into “they’re too expensive”, “ackthually they pollute more”, “rare earths”, etc… There will always be something.

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      Nearly 1 in 5 drivers or about 42 million people in the US can drive a stick. You have confused your peer group with everyone. Used manual cars are cheaper precisely because they are less in demand and cheaper to maintain to boot. Purportedly quality of automatic varies a lot which older cheaper cars being pretty shit. Remember when people are picking a car not everyone is picking from new mid tier new vehicles or last years models.

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      Idk if they’ll be any good, but I thought this was interesting as a manual car driver when I saw it.

      Toyota, however, has patented a way to provide the look and feel of a manual transmission in an electric car. … The car’s torque and performance will be altered as you “shift” to provide the feel of a gas-powered vehicle.

      https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/features/electric-manual-transmission

      I’d still switch to an EV either way once I have a way to charge it at home

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      I’m one of those people, I guess, but I’m not such a Luddite that I don’t think electric is the way forward. Had to replace a very old car recently and low-end new was better than buying used. Bought a gas car that gets great fuel economy for a variety of very good reasons, but if I could have bought a Tesla made by Toyota/Honda, with huge range for economy car prices, I would probably have an EV.

      Also worth noting: owning an EV is harder if you don’t own a house you can install charging hardware in.

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      I will miss my manual transmission car. What do you not understand? I have a Honda Accord and the manual is what made it actually fun to drive. Feels so much more like driving, more engaged with what I am doing. Even my kid who resisted learning to drive it now always wants to take my car everywhere. This is likely my last gas powered car, a 2014 I bought new, but yes I love driving a manual shift car, never have I bought an automatic. Also clutch & manual gearbox so much cheaper to fix. When the automatic transmission fails, the car is basically totalled, and it will fail eventually.

      I will miss my beloved manual shift car, yes.

      • sdoorex@slrpnk.net
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        Driving an EV is like driving a single speed manual, not an automatic, especially if it has any amount of performance. The throttle response is instantaneous, no waiting for the torque converter, shifting, or power building. Also, when driving in a high regeneration mode, letting off the pedal feels like downshifting a gear or two. It’s super engaging and the instant response feels so smooth and natural.

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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

      • noobdoomguy8658@feddit.de
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        I think the poster above you is trying to say that the materials and operations involved in EV production are even worse than that of the ICE vehicles combined with the their post-manufacture emissions. As far as I understand, a completely electronic vehicle (not a hybrid) would produce no emissions of its own, compared to one with an internal combustion engine.

        But I understand equally little abort both.

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          EV is do produce fine particles from brakes and mainly tires, but no combustion involved emissions. But it’s still a great win, especially for the air quality in cities and with that, the total health impact for the population they cause.

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    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

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      There’s no ‘or’, really. That kinetic energy you’re capturing with regen braking, you got that by burning gas. All your energy comes from burning gas.

      Unless it has a plug, it’s a gas car.

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    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.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOP
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      I agree with you, and I take public transit whenever possible, but I’m willing to compromise on them getting an EV if they at least stop driving big stupid trucks to get groceries from the supermarket

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        Yeah the big trucks suck and are pointless. Here in South Africa they keep making the Ford Ranger and Toyota Hilux bakkies bigger and bigger to try copy American trucks. Honestly only a matter of time before a Ford F-150 or Toyota Tundra model is available at a car dealership in South Africa. Also EVs won’t get popular here until rolling electricity blackouts are solved, and since they’ve been an issue for 15 years now, it’s not looking good.

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    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?

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    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.

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      There’s also CO2 emissions, climate change, smog, the fact that it’s a depleting resource…

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        Oh, I’m not endorsing that mindset. I’m just explaining it.

        I’m all for everything renewable, but in the process of making things more renewable, we have to keep an eye on things being repairable too. Increasingly, we have sealed devices (phones, TVs, microwave ovens, etc) that are difficult to repair at best and impossible to repair at worst. I understand that for some things, the majority of the cost is in the circuit board, so when something goes wrong with that (or it’s hopelessly outdated, or inefficient or whatever), then it’s time to replace, but often the circuit board shares fate with most of the rest of the device, so if the battery fails, or the screen or input system isn’t working, etc, then a perfectly good/working device (besides the main malfunction) is thrown away because it doesn’t work and nobody wants to fix it.

        There’s always a market for newer stuff, like the latest iPhone/Android/tablet/car/TV/whatever… But older stuff shouldn’t be forced into the landfill just because the power connector is damaged beyond usefulness… It’s stupid and wasteful.

        I think Tesla is deranged, half for the walled garden they’ve been fostering against other car manufacturers, and even EVs, but also because they replace whole modules on the slightest issue. Got a leaky fitting, whelp, gonna have to replace half the mass of the car just to fix it. Stupid. Just stupid.

        IMO, it’s not enough that the things we have are reusable/renewable, is it any better if we pay for reusable bags (as an example) that are only good for 3-4 trips to the shop, when they cost 5x as much and create 5x as much waste in the process? How does that make any sense? It’s like trying to put out a fire with hotter fire.

        Therein lies my dilemma, a lot of these things sound great on the surface, but the data isn’t there to support the claims. Not as far as I can see. We all agree that reusable bags are better than one-time-use plastic, sure, but is it actually doing any good? On top of that, I used to re-use plastic shopping bags for cleaning up after my pets, and for waste bins in the kitchen and bathroom, which now I have to pay extra to buy bags for those reasons specifically, which saves me nothing, and probably costs more in the long run, even if I paid 5-10 cents a bag at the registry for that plastic… IDK, I haven’t run the numbers on it. Add to that, how the hell am I supposed to pick up dog shit or scoop cat litter without a disposable bag? Apart from the financial cost, is there a practical way to do this without having to clean shit off of things, or myself?

        For me, there’s a lot more to consider than what marketing is going to lead you to believe. But I could literally rent about it for the better portion of the day, which is why my earlier response was so concise, because I didn’t want to launch into a lecture.

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      If you’re “solution” is for big government to come in and use our tax dollars to artificially reduce the price of the fuel that is already obsolete and actively destroying our planet, then I don’t think it’s a great solution.

      A better solution is to work on getting off of the obsolete fuel source and work towards better ones. EVs do exactly that. Embrace new ideas, don’t cling to outdated ones.

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        Oh, that’s not my solution.

        I’m just saying that there is a solution that would be satisfactory to those who think this way. I have an 11 year old ICE car that’s remarkably fuel efficient. The average cost of gas has driven my usual fill up about $20. I used to be able to fill up for a bit over $40, now I’m paying a bit shy of $60 for the same thing. I’m largely unaffected. I suspect the loudest people complaining about gas prices drive F150 and larger engined vehicles… Where a 50% uptick in cost, is more like $70. They don’t go any farther on a tank than my little 1.5L 4cyl can, they just pay more because TRUCK.

        See, I get down voted frequently because I approach issues from a neutral perspective, and I can see the arguments on both sides and make very neutrally biased comments… Then people brigade in thinking I’m making a statement, which I didn’t and never meant to imply, and my vote count goes straight to hell for it.

        I’m literally only pointing out that there is a solution that satisfies all parties. Which isn’t to say, nor imply that either I think that should happen, or will happen, or even if I think it’s a good idea to pursue. Yet, everyone likes to draw conclusions on what I think for simply pointing out that there are facts to the matter.

        For the record, I’m very much in favor of EVs. I’m not convinced that Tesla’s way of doing things is the right way, but I have to give them credit for basically proving the naysayers wrong, and making EVs viable above all questioning. Both for consumer transportation and now they’re going after trucks and they inspired Ford to put out the F-150 lighting. That’s progress. There’s bigger fish to fry than consumer vehicles, even just talking about the transportation sector, but I’ll refrain from commenting further on it since it is not material to the point. What is material to the point is that EVs are a good step in the right direction.

        The oil industry has tried to kill EVs for a long time, and they were successful for a long time until Tesla shook things up. The oil companies had no real way to fight against Tesla making EVs… Now that electric vehicles have proven themselves, there’s no looking back. EVs will be the way forward. Battery tech might change, and the way we charge them may change, hell, even how we store energy for use may be completely different (like with fuel cell EVs)… Who knows? But cars driven by electric motors will not be going away. Anyone in opposition needs to either get on board or get out of the way, because they’re on the wrong side of history.

        There were people that opposed “horseless carriages” back in the day too… We all know how that worked out.