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Re:Can we go electric before it's too late? by toomuchtodo on Monday October 15, 2018 @05:05PM (#18223731)
An internal combustion vehicle burns gasoline or diesel for it's entire life. An EV gets cleaner every year as coal and gas are replaced by renewables. Even today, burning coal and natural gas, an EV is cleaner and more efficient fueled off of those generators than a petrol vehicle.

We'll need enormous amounts of storage to move to intermittent renewables; lucky for us, a million EVs are sold every six months, and that timeframe continues to narrow.

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Re:Can we go electric before it's too late? by x220 on Monday October 15, 2018 @05:19PM (#18223862)
Sure, electric cars are an improvement, but they aren't the end-all-be-all of climate change. The bulk of the problem is out of the hands of individual choice.
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Re:Can we go electric before it's too late? by toomuchtodo on Monday October 15, 2018 @05:28PM (#18223951)
Find ways to contribute towards actions that scale. Climate change is hundreds of problems actioned simultaneously.

http://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank

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