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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

  • LordSinguloth@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Thats great, I’m glad it works for you and your family. But that anecdote doesn’t make it work for everyone yet.

    • Emoba@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      You know, it actually does. Taking a 20 minute break every 3 hours doesn’t hurt anybody badly. That’s all it takes to no longer locally burn fossil fuels and reduce the emissions significantly. I get the problem that electric cars are too expensive and I understand that some people can’t afford them. But this entitlement of “my precious 20 minutes that I can spend doing some situps or have a coffee are too much to ask from me, so I’d rather keep burning carbon” is just nonsense. People should walk more and bike more and use more trains. However, if none of that works, electric cars are a working alternative to produce much less carbon dioxide. But if a slight inconvenience of taking not even the recommended pauses while driving is already too much to ask, this planet is fucked I guess.