People arguing about the price of gas, but as soon as someone mentions driving an EV they’re “stupid” and woke
That’s Facebook for you. People love to complain about things that take them out of what they have gotten used to but the moment someone offers a possible solution they dig their heels in the sand.
They’re essentially just shouting out and seeing how many people will absentmindedly agree and reaffirm their view point
Oh it’s a standard social media echo chamber, and I’m well aware that we’re in one here too. But at least here we aren’t saying that the gas prices are a conspiracy done by the dEMoCrAtS!! Of course to them the only solution is to… have big government regulate gas prices, god forbid they think about alternatives
Facebook is the worst social media site of all where boomers and racist people shouting at each other. The best one can do is to delete themselves.
Not defending them, but if I can’t afford a tank of gas I likely can’t afford a whole new car. Hell I can afford a tank of gas and I still can’t afford a new car.
For a while, with state and federal rebates, new EVs were ridiculously cheap but a lot of people didn’t realize it. My brother leased a Nissan Leaf for my niece for $100 a month. I realize leasing isn’t for everyone, but $100 a month for a car for a teenager is pretty damn reasonable until she can afford to buy something for herself.
They’re insanely cheap RIGHT NOW. lol
You can get a used 2018-2020 Tesla (or any other brand) for $25k and then $4k back through a tax credit.
That’s not cheap to me, that’s a normal price for a new car. My current car cost thousands less than that and is still great.
Really I thought these were all expired… But if not we may end up going for it this year
Dude 25k is an insane amount of money for a car and is simply not an option for most people also then you would have to be driving not only a Tesla but a Tesla with an old ass battery
Lots of them on Autotrader when I looked a week ago.
The problem is, they still want $40k for a used EV.
And then you need to consider how much battery capacity is left, pretty sure that’s a really big cost to replace?
‘The worlds changing and change scares me!’
“BUT WHERE DO THEY THINK THAT POWER EVEN COMES FROM???”
Well, if someone would spend two seconds thinking about it, renewable are a good investment. It’s not like we want to stop burning coal today, but this argument gets me everytime.
Plus, burning fossil fuels in a dedicated generator in optimal conditions, then converting that to electricity, transferring that electricity over the grid to an electric car generates less emissions than burning it straight in an ICE engine to convert it into kinetic energy. Even if you ignore all the fossil fuels that are burned during extraction, transport and conversion before it gets to your local petrol station.
Exactly. Even if you’re not using renewables to charge your EV, they’re still significantly more fuel efficient due to the gains you get from producing energy in a power plant instead of through a small engine. I read somewhere that an EV with a 300 mile range is using the same amount of fuel to charge as if you were burning 3 gallons of gasoline.
The only thing coal has going for it is you can burn it when the sun is down and the wind has stopped. Solar makes more financial sense
“On average, the marginal cost for the coal plants is $36 each megawatt hour, while new solar is about $24 each megawatt hour, or about a third cheaper.,Only one coal plant – Dry Fork in Wyoming – is cost competitive with the new renewables.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/30/us-coal-more-expensive-than-renewable-energy-study
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