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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Gas shortages, you say? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 4 months ago by hylobates@jlai.lu to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That is a highly misleading figure. 10% of UK renewable energy is generated at Drax, which is not only the UK’s biggest single emitter of carbon, it burns wood pellets imported from British Columbia, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. Fossil fuels power the tree harvesters, the saw mills, the transport trucks, the trains, the pellet factories and the ships involved in getting that fuel to Yorkshire from half a planet away.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 6 points 4 months ago

It's 7.5% over the last 12 months, and biomass is not fossil fuels. I agree shipping it in is silly, but the carbon it releases during burning is carbon captured in recent years, not millions of years ago. That matters.

...but even if you take it over the other side of the line....it 35% instead of 28%. It also doesn't change the french figure.