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xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas (xkcd.com)

submitted 5 months ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that's the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

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[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Electric cars is not the solution. Sure, it's an improvement, but for a real solution you need to get people out of personal vehicles on onto public transportation. Trains, trams, busses, whatever. Build it in a way that doesn't suck. Assuming american, the US had (past tense) amazing train/tram networks decades ago. Every warehouse had a rail spur, and since walking was considered ok people weren't obese fatasses.

I drive a scooter. It is possible to live without a car, although it does have some difficulties sometimes. If your job is within 10 miles of your home or less, then you don't need a car for your commute. If I can do it so can you. I'd still rather take a bus, if it existed.

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My job is within 10mi of my home. If I walk there, I get there in 2 hours. If I take public transportation, it takes me 1h45m to 2h20m depending on the day.

I also live in a community where our electricity is from 90% renewable resources, 10% nuclear. Switching to an electric car is a 100% reduction in carbon usage for my commute. Using the bus isn't.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Why not get an electric bike then? Reasonable price tag, will get you to work within a reasonable timeframe, significantly less congestion on roads, and charges with that renewable energy without using a lot of it.

Also, their point was that adding infrastructure for public transport (aka improving the public transport you're complaining about) will have a huge effect on reducing greenhouse gas emissions across a population and is more easily electrified. Your focus on an individual case is irrelevant to their argument.

[–] Bezzelbob@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Idk why ppl are down voting this, bro is literally just advocating for public transportation

Ig it's all the insecure pickup truck bros

Edit: typos

[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not everyone lives where public transportation is really feasible. He'll EVs aren't even practical where I live.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 months ago

So we shouldn't bother with it anywhere then?

You're missing the forest for the trees