• IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    Building electrified transit and keeping ICE cars would as a whole be more beneficial than just converting all cars to EVs.

    This choice you’ve presented is extremely misleading. The build out of electrified public transportation and the shift from ICE to EV cars are not in any way related choices. If the government chooses to build more public transportation, that has no effect on whether or not EVs replace ICE cars.

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        3 days ago

        Which is good, but still has nothing to do with what the remaining cars are powered by. There’s no reason why it has to be “transit+ICE” instead of “transit+EV”.

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          3 days ago

          My point is that we should be making the most impactful changes we can to fight climate change and environmental destruction, which means subsidies, government investments, and tax breaks are better spent on transit, density, or active transport than on EV infrastructure/incentives

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            3 days ago

            And the most impactful change I can make is purchasing an EV.

            Since I already vote for officials who support all of those issues there is no impactful change because the alignment is already there.

            There are locally impactful actions that I can participate in but none that will have the same impact as my personal choices.

            The most impactful choices I could make are all illegal. The majority of them being some form of demestic terrorism.

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            2 days ago

            Even here in a walkable town with good transit, I still need a car so an EV is what I can do.