Ik that ttolleybuses are better than electric cars in carbon footprint, traffic, etc. I'm just proposing that we compare things with the same power source together. It makes more impact to say that an electric trolley is x% better on y metric compared to electric cars, than to say they are x% better than gas cars.

Imagine a situation where you say electric trolleybuses are superior to gas cars for reasons x, y, and z on xcretion or speddit. Then some elon musk bootlicker or big oil bootlicker replies to you saying "what about electric cars" or "what about gas buses"? You craft a meticulous reply about why gas buses are better than electric cars. But it's too late. Thousands of lurkers saw the bootlicker's reply to you but will never see your rebuttal. Many of them are now more against public transportation.