Electric vehicles are way more energy-efficient than internal combustion

Re:Electric vehicles are way more energy-efficient than inte... by occz on Sunday August 14, 2022 @04:30AM (#32457538)

Yes indeed.

The fact that conservatives broadly have taken the position supporting of cars and car-oriented development is one of the most absurd things imaginable. Socialized inefficient infrastructure that was not even a thing a hundred years ago being considered a conservative policy, a real hoot.

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Re:Electric vehicles are way more energy-efficient than inte... by ghoward on Sunday August 14, 2022 @08:27AM (#32458682)

I'm not sure how much of this is true.

I'm a conservative, and I would love to have more walkable/bikeable cities and to not need a car.

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Re:Electric vehicles are way more energy-efficient than inte... by occz on Sunday August 14, 2022 @09:38AM (#32459137)

>I'm not sure how much of this is true.

I'll admit to this not being an opinion I hold based on any kind of scientific observation, this does seem to be an opinion I have anecdotally observed among rural- and suburban-populations, which tend to lean more towards the conservative political spectrum than their urban counterparts.

>I'm a conservative, and I would love to have more walkable/bikeable cities and to not need a car.

Kudos.

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Re:Electric vehicles are way more energy-efficient than inte... by throwaway894345 on Sunday August 14, 2022 @11:11AM (#32459907)

I’m not a conservative, but the independence that cars provide holds a certain appeal and aligns fine with conservative values. Anyway, conservatives happily embrace new technology all the time (almost all conservatives have a smartphone and an Internet connection, and those developments are much more recent than cars); adopting cars isn’t a contradiction at all—clinging to trains and bikes would be the contradiction.

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