Your disbelieve in the need to adopt green solutions like EV's is not a surprise. In fact you prolly don't think they are a green solution.
And I don't think you are right or fully understand, I'll give you this: you are not alone.
Brewha wrote:
Other than the government trying to force it down the throat of the people, what is this "need to adopt green solutions" come from?
Any green solution that you come up with will still require the use of fossil fuels to make and deliver the products you use. Look around you, nearly everything is made from fossil fuels. The keyboard you are typing on, the TV that you watch, the remote that you use to change the channels on the TV, the shoes you wear, the clothing you wear, the carpet you walk on, the appliances in your kitchen, the clock hanging on your wall, the insulation in your house, the plumbing in your house, the insulation for the wiring in your house, the shingles on your roof, the containers that you store your food in, the glasses on your face, the containers that hold your medication, the rubber tires on your Tesla, the body panels and, probably 98.2% of the construction, for your Tesla... all are made from the refinement of fossil fuels.
FACT, not opinion. The list is essentially endless.
Now let's touch on some of your examples that you've used to argue for government mandates for EVs and other "green" initiatives, shall we?
You've used the example of going from incandescent bulbs, to compact florescent, to LED to support your thesis (government mandates for the common good). That is a a
FAIL. Moving from incandescent to CF to LED doesn't require an overhaul or redesigning a new electrical system for your house and/or the electric grid (up front capital expenses).
EV's, solar and wind do and will require that. Your light bulb fixtures are like the honey badger, it don't give a $hit if you put in an incandescent, CF or LED bulb in it. It works the same without any rewiring or changes.
Your failed logic and talking points also apply to some of your other examples that you use such as seat belts, low flow shower heads, toilets, plumbing fixtures. All of these are simple drop in changes that don't require the consumer nor the water/energy suppliers to come up with a rather large chunk of change in capital expense in order to implement and support them.
I'm not saying to stop the development of alternative sources of energy and raw materials. I'm all for trying to be more efficient. But the way we are going about it (shutting down harvesting oil, coal, natural gas and the refinement and production of this sources of raw materials) is not feasible until we have a solid and proven replacement for them. So far we don't and we are orders of magnitude away from doing so.
You can't just say that we'll figure it out later and *Poof* a miracle happens, that's not the way of the real world.
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