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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by thechao on Sunday June 02, 2024 @11:23AM (#40554885)
ICE vehicles don't have tires? A good way to estimate the environmental cost of a mass consumer product is its price (capex & opex), with the caveat that the unaccounted cost for burning gasoline is probably around 6$/gallon, right now.

100 gallons of gasoline produce ~1 ton of CO2, and it costs ~600$/ton to perform CO2 air capture.

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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by roywiggins on Sunday June 02, 2024 @11:26AM (#40554908)
Carbon emissions are not the only type of pollution. EVs and ICEs both have tires, so replacing ICEs with EVs does not fix the problem of air pollution in cities because the vast majority of particulates generated by the car while driving it are coming from the tires, not the tailpipe.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/tire-pollution-toxic-chemical...

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