(September 11, 2021 at 8:57 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: And that sounds suspiciously like a dodge. The claim made for electric vehicles is that they produce no emissions, not that building them produces no emissions.
I asked a perfectly straightforward question: Can you show that the total emissions of an electric car (production + driving) exceeds that of a petrol-powered car?
Boru
Your edit: I’m happy to admit that producing EVs creates fossil fuel emissions. I said as much earlier.
A point that's not being addressed here is that OLB is just making a strawman argument, I suppose just for the sake of arguing with people because, I suppose he just enjoys it. Go figure.
We KNOW that EVs use electricity produced in a power plant. We KNOW that most of that power includes fossil fuels. We don't claim otherwise. We also know that the EVs themselves produce zero emissions and any emissions arising from the electricity they use comes from a facility that is far better at cleaning its emissions than any ICE vehicle. We are also generally advocates of moving away from fossil fuels to cleaner forms of energy. So there's absolutely no hypocrisy in the position of promoting EV's. So just stop with this bullshit argument. You're just embarrassing yourself.
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