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Re:SF people, you are hypocrites using services like Uber an... by eevilspock on Friday June 13, 2014 @10:05AM (#7888877)
Yes, but one has lots of environmental and societal costs, while the other doesn't. If electricity were bad overall for society, his argument would apply to it too.
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Re:SF people, you are hypocrites using services like Uber an... by Evgeny on Friday June 13, 2014 @01:29PM (#7889913)
Isn't most of electricity these days obtained by burning coal? I remember figures around couple hundred thousand yearly just from that. Here is one of the sources

https://sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/...

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