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Re:Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across... by spaced-out on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @08:02PM (#31747581)
Exactly this. One of the best things governments could do to help lower greenhouse gasses is incentivize people to get their goods delivered instead of going to the store. So much fuel is wasted moving a ~2 ton vehicle and a >100 lbs person to the store so they can pick up, often, <100 lbs of goods. That's <5% fuel efficiency.
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Re:Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across... by plankers on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @04:04AM (#31750312)
you're both acting like people drive less when they get things delivered to their home. this is not true and i'm pretty sure you know it.
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Re:Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across... by onphonenow on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @01:46PM (#31756560)
Just from my side once we switched more to delivery we are driving a TON less.

We used to go a few cities over for some thing, whole foods for example not in our city so we'd go over to it to grab some stuff, then to target for a few things etc etc. All that driving has evaporated - we are cooking at home more too.

"i'm pretty sure you know it."

Please cite something rather than ascribing a (false) view to someone else. I don't know your "fact" because it seems like you are lying based on my direct experience.

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Re:Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across... by criley2 on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @07:20AM (#31751408)
it is literally true

https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/what-if-more-people-bought...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-05/americans...

I'm sure you can find a thousand articles/discussions online about the math behind how driving cars to stores is significantly more polluting than "salesman problem"ing a single delivery truck.

Bonus: it's far easier to electrify or improve 1 delivery truck than it is the 100 cars it's displacing.

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