Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles - eviltoast

Large grocery stores around here offer cheaper gas if you shop at there store. This can be up to a dollar a gallon off.

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    The bitterness toward those with gas cars isn’t helping either. I drive an electric now and I like it, but I hate how we’re working so hard to force people. It’s not right. Freedom is important.

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      6 months ago

      Freedom of choice is certainly important but we do all have to work together for the sake of our future and our children’s future. It is certainly a good idea to set efficiency and emissions standards, including up to a controlled transition to zero emissions.

      It’s not even close to a situation of forcing any customers: we’re at a stage of forcing manufacturers to improve their products and work toward a transition in 11 years, and help encourage a growing market for them to profit by it.

      This is back to old arguments like:

      • free speech but you can’t yell “FIRE” in a coowded theater
      • freedom to swing your arms, that stops before you hit my face

      And connected to Tragedy of the Commons.

      • breathable air and livable environments are something we all need in common. You have no right to take that from the rest of us
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        breathable air and livable environments are something we all need in common. You have no right to take that from the rest of us

        And based on this logic, you only get the right to take my freedom when can prove that I’m taking your livable environment away.

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          Sure, we have standards to demonstrate that. We know that global warming is taking that livable environment away. We have established goals per country, and strategies to meet them. Those strategies map out limits for how much your vehicle can pollute, without being detrimental to everyone’s livable environment. Given the impact on people, we’ve made the compromise to phase those in over more than a decade, but after 2035 (in my state), the compromise is over. New cars for sale can no longer emit carbon dioxide as part of their operation.

          Your existing vehicle is grandfathered since we hadn’t established those limits when it was manufactured, and it was the purchased with the expectation of being suitable for purpose

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            We know that global warming is taking that livable environment away

            No we do not. You’re claiming that you are going to die, unless you take away my freedom.

            Can you show me the evidence of a model that’s predicting humans being unable to live here due to global warming? I doubt that you can.

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              Read the news sometime. A memorable recent one I read included the history of a barrier island town, the nearby ones already abandoned, and whether they need to abandon it yet or if it was still livable. The root cause was sea level rise caused by global warming

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      6 months ago

      I can’t say I’ve seen any people ‘forcing’ others to go out and replace a perfectly functional combustion car with an electric one - the manufacturers maybe. Most of the conversation I see is focused on the lack of low cost options when it’s time to purchase a brand new vehicle. Gas and electric both.

      Once you move away from the brand new discussion, it seems pretty well agreed that keeping what you’ve got is the best option environmentally and financially. Buying used being a close second.

      Freedom is important. But when the industry only offers you trucks and SUVs, where’s your choice?

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      6 months ago

      Not when the planet and future generations are at stake.

      Aside from even that, I rolled down my window this morning on my way to work to enjoy some fresh air and I got a big blast of toxic exhaust fumes. It’s literally poisoning the air around us. IMO people’s right to not breathe toxic fumes is more important than someone else’s right to drive a gas car just because they like it.

      We aren’t there yet in terms of cost or electric charger availability, but once we are we should 100% ban gas cars.