Electric Vehicles Won’t Save the Planet or Survive Without Subsidies

Re:Electric Vehicles Won’t Save the Planet or Survive Withou... by codeulike on Saturday October 26, 2019 @09:00AM (#21363380)

This is the usual bullshit. There is some interesting stuff to be gleaned by comparing the carbon footprint of the whole manufacturing cycle of ICE vs EVs, but they seem to often leave out the global petrochemical industry infrastructure from those sorts of things.

And these people keep going on about coal, forgetting that its pretty easy for consumers to switch to renewable-only electricity suppliers should they wish to* . If you've got an EV, that makes zero-emissions travel possible. If you dont have an EV, that isn't possible. Its as simple as that.

Would like to know who's paying this guy. * *

* Certainly in the UK its trivial to switch to 100% renewable electricity, and I'm told its similarly possible in the states.

* * Oh right he works for Cottonwood Venture Partners who sell IT stuff to the oil and gas industry. Source: https://www.city-journal.org/contributor/mark-p-mills_255 https://www.cottonwoodvp.com/index.html/#portfolio

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Re:Electric Vehicles Won’t Save the Planet or Survive Withou... by masta on Saturday October 26, 2019 @09:04AM (#21363403)

> Would like to know who's paying this guy.

Well, the Manhattan Institute, which owns City Journal, is a big proponent of the Oil and Gas business. They have a track record of denying man-made climate change. So this just fits their usual canon.

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