Inconvenient Facts

[GURPS]

Inconvenient fact 1: Selling more electric cars won't reduce oil use very much.

"The world has 15, 18 million electric vehicles now," says Mills. "If we (somehow) get to 500 million, that would reduce world oil consumption by about 10%. That's not nothing, but it doesn't end the use of oil."

Most of the world's oil is used by things like "airplanes, buses, big trucks and the mining equipment that gets the copper to build the electric cars."

Even if all vehicles somehow did switch to electricity, there's another problem: Electricity isn't very green.

Inconvenient Facts

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[limblips]

The greenies want to eliminate fossil fuels and make up lies and deceitful memes to support that elimination. They are either woefully ignorant of fact that thousands of products in their homes depend on oil or choose to ignore.

 

[PrchJrkr]

The greenies want to eliminate fossil fuels and make up lies and deceitful memes to support that elimination. They are either woefully ignorant of fact that thousands of products in their homes depend on oil or choose to ignore.

I'll go with woefully ignorant.

 

[vraiblonde]

See, and I have to believe there's something else in play. These people aren't stupid - they're not. They know how much we rely on oil in this country....even to produce electricity.

The only thing I can think is that they want us to devolve into some third world shithole. Then I have to wonder what's the purpose of that, besides just plain malice.

 

[Kyle]

See, and I have to believe there's something else in play. These people aren't stupid - they're not. They know how much we rely on oil in this country....even to produce electricity.

The only thing I can think is that they want us to devolve into some third world shithole. Then I have to wonder what's the purpose of that, besides just plain malice.

They envision everyone living in some leftist Hippy paradise but in reality it would end up being more like the Eloi's world.

 

[Clem72]

Inconvenient fact 1: Selling more electric cars won't reduce oil use very much.

"The world has 15, 18 million electric vehicles now," says Mills. "If we (somehow) get to 500 million, that would reduce world oil consumption by about 10%. That's not nothing, but it doesn't end the use of oil."

Most of the world's oil is used by things like "airplanes, buses, big trucks and the mining equipment that gets the copper to build the electric cars."

Even if all vehicles somehow did switch to electricity, there's another problem: Electricity isn't very green.

Inconvenient Facts

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Yeah, i'm not interested in reducing the world's use of oil, i'm interested in increasing my personal use of cheaper fuel. The problem is the cheaper part, need batteries to continue to go down in price and we need electricity to go down. Get us some more damn nukular plants. Or I can win the lotto and not give a rip.

 

[Hijinx]

I cannot repeat this enough. The whole world was tossed into this Energy mess on Biden's first day in office. Anyone who believe we can control climate is insane.
Sure we can work for clean air, but the United State already has the cleanest air in the world while China id the most polluting country in the world and we are sending our money there by buying their products. If the climate idiots really wanted to clean the air they would stop this BS about electric cars and stop buying anything made in china.

 

[herb749]

I cannot repeat this enough. The whole world was tossed into this Energy mess on Biden's first day in office. Anyone who believe we can control climate is insane.
Sure we can work for clean air, but the United State already has the cleanest air in the world while China id the most polluting country in the world and we are sending our money there by buying their products. If the climate idiots really wanted to clean the air they would stop this BS about electric cars and stop buying anything made in china.

How can they predict climate change when they can't even predict the weather.

 

[herb749]

Inconvenient fact 1: Selling more electric cars won't reduce oil use very much.

"The world has 15, 18 million electric vehicles now," says Mills. "If we (somehow) get to 500 million, that would reduce world oil consumption by about 10%. That's not nothing, but it doesn't end the use of oil."

Most of the world's oil is used by things like "airplanes, buses, big trucks and the mining equipment that gets the copper to build the electric cars."

Even if all vehicles somehow did switch to electricity, there's another problem: Electricity isn't very green.

Inconvenient Facts

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We need to check out where these people are investing their money. If its on all these climate changing things, then they are trying to get us to make them money. If its to devalue oil see if they are buying up oil stocks.

 

[Clem72]

How can they predict climate change when they can't even predict the weather.

I'm not going to debate climate change, I know literally nothing about that shet. But I do know the difference between the words climate, and weather. A weather prediction is that "it may rain on tuesday", a climate prediction is that "December is colder than June". Being able to make that second prediction has nothing to do with being able to make the first. The first requires tons of data, weird weather models, super computers, and an old guy with a trick knee. The second requires being alive for a couple of years and recognizing a pattern.

 

[Kyle]

I'm not going to debate climate change, I know literally nothing about that shet. But I do know the difference between the words climate, and weather. A weather prediction is that "it may rain on tuesday", a climate prediction is that "December is colder than June". Being able to make that second prediction has nothing to do with being able to make the first. The first requires tons of data, weird weather models, super computers, and an old guy with a trick knee. The second requires being alive for a couple of years and recognizing a pattern.

And trying to predict something that operates within geologic epochs, with data from a couple if human lifetimes, is no more than a guess or leap of faith.

 

[jrt_ms1995]

And trying to predict something that operates within geologic epochs, with data from a couple if human lifetimes, is no more than a guess or leap of faith.

Yes, trying to predict the long-term behavior of any non-linear, dynamic system is a fool's game.