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Re:California approves $768M for electric vehicles by ordinaryradical on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:56PM (#17209480)
I've never understood this argument. It completely ignores the locality of pollution effects. In an ideal world, the entire grid would be powered by renewables, yes, but I would still prefer that the cars whizzing by my face every day produce no emissions even if the power plant 50 miles away does.
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Re:California approves $768M for electric vehicles by en4bz on Friday June 01, 2018 @04:19PM (#17209753)
Investment in (much needed) public transit does the same and tends to benefit low income people not those that have $30K to spend on a new car.
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Re:California approves $768M for electric vehicles by outworlder on Friday June 01, 2018 @04:49PM (#17210116)
What about not buying a new car? My wife bought a pretty decent one for 5k.

But public transportation is better of course. Make it electric while you are at it.

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