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Re:America's Greyhound bus stations are disappearing by linotype on Saturday September 28, 2024 @06:06PM (#41683290)
EVs aren’t wasteful. The US alone consumes 9 million gallons of gas a day. It’s not sustainable. If we don’t transition in the next fifty years no one will be driving except for the extraordinarily wealthy.
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Re:America's Greyhound bus stations are disappearing by yaksha on Saturday September 28, 2024 @06:16PM (#41683325)
Do you have references backing up the claim of such gas consumption not being sustainable?
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Re:America's Greyhound bus stations are disappearing by linotype on Saturday September 28, 2024 @06:42PM (#41683433)
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...

Oil is made over millions of years and we’re on track to deplete it in under 200 years. We’ll never completely deplete it because the oil that’s left will be uneconomical to extract, but that’s functionally the same thing.

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Re:America's Greyhound bus stations are disappearing by baggy_trough on Saturday September 28, 2024 @06:49PM (#41683468)
They said the same “50 years to go” thing in the 70s. Yes, of course the naturally occurring supply is finite. But we don’t know where the limit is.
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Re:America's Greyhound bus stations are disappearing by gambiting on Saturday September 28, 2024 @06:29PM (#41683372)
What do you mean? You do know our oil supplies are finite, right?
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