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Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is only a concern for EV companies. The environmental impact of these subsidies and regulations is nill

Got a source to back up your claim?

Here's one contradicting it:

Gasoline demand growth to slow this year on EV growth in China, U.S.

"Penetration of electric vehicles has been increasing in U.S. and China," said Woodmac analyst Sushant Gupta.

Both the USA and China subsidize EV sales (and also petroleum exploration and extraction for that matter).

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Biden's environmental policies are still leading civilization to the same place as Trump's.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-00921-7

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

“There is no future without electrification. But just electrification will not get us there,”

Daniel Posen is an associate professor in U of T’s department of civil and mineral engineering, and the Canada Research Chair in system-scale environmental impacts of energy and transport technologies. He agrees electrification is vital. But relying solely on electric vehicles to reduce carbon emissions from transportation may not be enough, especially if we want to do it in time to stop a catastrophic two-degree rise in global temperatures.

The article you link contradicts you, it clearly suggests that adoption of EVs reduce carbon emissions, but we still need to do more (e.g. ACTUALLY HAVE PUBLIC TRANSIT INFRASTRUCTURE) to prevent a climate catastrophe.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] edited their post and changed their source. The old source cited was this:

" Can Electric Vehicles Save the Planet?"

Eliminating gas-powered cars and trucks may help avert a climate catastrophe. But they are only part of the solution https://magazine.utoronto.ca/research-ideas/can-electric-vehicles-save-the-planet/

That is the source that @force as quoting and replied to, and @force is right I was going to respond similarly after reading the original source.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's an article about the study. Figured it's clearer to link the study.

The point remains, Biden's environmental policies will doom civilization.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Yes Biden needs to do more. The type of changes needed to avert catastrophe aren't anywhere in his plans.