have there ever been any long term studies about if replacing gasoline cars with electric cars would even have enough of a viable environmental impact for it to matter
because my dumb dumb brain says the switch to manufacturing electric cars still involves massive industrial production of things like rubber, lubricants, lithium batteries, whatever else goes inside a car, plus I don't know how energy efficient those batteries are, and my commie brain has some kind of intuitive reflex saying electric cars are still just a bandaid for an infrastructure that still inherently lends itself towards environmental catastrophe, especially if manufacturers will probably engineer some kind of planned obsolescence into them
my commie senses say a more viable long term project would be scrapping car based transportation entirely in favor of more convenient mass transit and much better planned and managed resource allocation so we wouldn't be so reliant upon truckers always being on the road
Electric cars are generally more efficient and they cut down on localized pollution meaning they're generally better for the people living around where they're operating, but in terms of big-picture shit they are indeed basically meaningless because commuter cars make up such a tiny portion of overall greenhouse gas emissions and industrial pollution. Industry, agriculture, and logistics for raw materials and finished goods accounts for an overwhelming amount of greenhouse gas emissions and pollution in general.
Electric vehicles certainly would be better than internal combustion engine ones, and one could certainly imagine they'd still have a place for last-mile logistics and some transportation even with a transport system reworked to favor mass-transit and rail logistics over cars and trucks, but they're completely meaningless on their own and the whole "jUsT bUy ElEcTrIc CaRs" shit is just another facet of the liberal consumption-as-the-only-acceptable-form-of-political-activity shit that seems to atomize everyone and turn every issue into an individual subjective moral choice rather than something that needs to be addressed systemically.
have there ever been any long term studies about if replacing gasoline cars with electric cars would even have enough of a viable environmental impact for it to matter
because my dumb dumb brain says the switch to manufacturing electric cars still involves massive industrial production of things like rubber, lubricants, lithium batteries, whatever else goes inside a car, plus I don't know how energy efficient those batteries are, and my commie brain has some kind of intuitive reflex saying electric cars are still just a bandaid for an infrastructure that still inherently lends itself towards environmental catastrophe, especially if manufacturers will probably engineer some kind of planned obsolescence into them
my commie senses say a more viable long term project would be scrapping car based transportation entirely in favor of more convenient mass transit and much better planned and managed resource allocation so we wouldn't be so reliant upon truckers always being on the road
Electric cars are generally more efficient and they cut down on localized pollution meaning they're generally better for the people living around where they're operating, but in terms of big-picture shit they are indeed basically meaningless because commuter cars make up such a tiny portion of overall greenhouse gas emissions and industrial pollution. Industry, agriculture, and logistics for raw materials and finished goods accounts for an overwhelming amount of greenhouse gas emissions and pollution in general.
Electric vehicles certainly would be better than internal combustion engine ones, and one could certainly imagine they'd still have a place for last-mile logistics and some transportation even with a transport system reworked to favor mass-transit and rail logistics over cars and trucks, but they're completely meaningless on their own and the whole "jUsT bUy ElEcTrIc CaRs" shit is just another facet of the liberal consumption-as-the-only-acceptable-form-of-political-activity shit that seems to atomize everyone and turn every issue into an individual subjective moral choice rather than something that needs to be addressed systemically.
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