The first servo I stopped at had run out of diesel. A tank normally costs me $100 less.
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I'm bloody happy to have an EV
If only we had electric trucks hauling goods around the country
or electric trains :(
Almost all modern trains are electric...
...they just have a big diesel generator in the back powering it :P
I think that's probably a little more difficult for interstate runs
why? they are more fuel efficient than fleets of trucks, cheaper to build, run and maintain than roads, better for the environment by not spewing microplastics into the environment, and to top it off, move more stuff for less labor.
look at china for examples of long distance train networks designed and deployed rapidly.
Truth. And even cooler, there have been some conversion projects to make semi-trucks run like electric trains.
Yeah, my wife has to punch herself in the smug each morning.
This comment is in all of these threads.
The food you eat is produced and transported to you with diesel.
You're right. Better we did nothing.
That's not what I said at all.
I really wish I had turned my backyard into a vegetable garden last fall
This is pretty much the same comment.
Even if you drive an EV and grow 100% of your own food, every member of your community is going to be drowning in these costs.
That means they have less money to spend at local businesses, and so on and so forth.