Green-Cruiser t1_iy5o4ij wrote
Reply to comment by ToothlessGrandma in Embrace what may be the most important green technology ever. It could save us all by stepsinstereo
And driving EVs instead of gas, and reducing the amount of meat, and putting solar/(new thorium)nuclear/renewables/storage everywhere we can afford to, and ending lobbying. There are plenty of things we can all do
ToothlessGrandma t1_iy5oayz wrote
That's why I said stop voting Republican. They're against all of this.
scipiotomyloo t1_iy5s3lp wrote
I’m totally on board for going green, but until I can buy a work van for less than $10k - I can’t go EV. I’m poor.
Green-Cruiser t1_iy5tpow wrote
At some point gas will be expensive enough to the point that converting a van to electric will be a no-brainer. If you only need the van to go under 100 miles/ charge you can get close for 10k.
usatovo t1_iy5uiqt wrote
I wonder if gas prices might actually fall substantially at some point over the next 10-20 years as more people buy EVs and demand for gas drops. I think that’s one of the reasons we need a legislative end date for fossil fuels, not just the old rely on the free market strategy.
Hei2 t1_iy62dgg wrote
I think what might happen is prices go up as production reduces due to reduced demand.
TeaKingMac t1_iy6dpn4 wrote
This.
Also, I imagine they'll put a vice tax on it like they do alcohol and cigarettes
yem_slave t1_iy5tn5m wrote
Avoid using the internet
UltimateTrattles t1_iy8bw6n wrote
Even better than buying evs - let’s not build cities around cars and instead around people - and have reasonable transit.
The vast majority of cars sit empty, parked, for 90% of their life. They are an enormous waste.
We need to move to a norm where the average person doesn’t own a car and has no reason to.
Green-Cruiser t1_iy8i4gl wrote
I like your idea but rebuilding a city is harder than converting the cars to EV.
UltimateTrattles t1_iy8ida7 wrote
We don’t need to rebuild.
We just need to stop building giant single family suburbs.
We are actively STILL building more areas like this.
We need to zone for mixed use - not strictly residential. It does not require rebuilding. Simply fixing zoning will start to sort the problem out.
Green-Cruiser t1_iy8j95d wrote
👍 I'm a big fan of changing the way we build moving forward
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