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Tim Cole wrote:
Supposedly the dozen largest cargo ships generate more pollution than all of the automobiles running around the world today.
Conservation of energy dictates that unless the car is solar powered it has a negative environmental effect. The pollution from manufacturing is being ignored as well.
The largest cargo ships emit the smallest amount emission per ton of cargo moved. Take for example the Ever Given that got stuck last year in the Suez canal. It has 79,000 hp and moves over 210,000 (metric) tonnes. Roughly figure 1/3 hp per ton of product moved. Try to get that done with over the road trucking. Water transport is the cheapest and environmentally the best way to move cargo.
Ev's might look like not having any emissions but most energy in this country is not "green" energy. So your EV is basically coal powered. Now have you seen what a lithium mine looks like with children mining product with a life expectancy of about 15 years to get the lithium ore for your precious tesla? Have you any idea what we are going to do with all the lithium batteries that are obsolete? There's no way to economically recycle them (at least at this point). Washington (both R's &D's, not trying to get political here) have been pushing EV's for the fact that it is an control mechanism, it has nothing to do with environment. They dont even believe their own bilge. When they need to get their private jets to receive an award for being such an environmental heavyweight and they fly thousands of miles to receive the award (I'm looking at you John Kerry and leo DiCaprio) but they try to tell us as pee-ons what we should or shouldn't do for the environment... Hollywood & politicians have 1 moto: do as we say not as we do.
We all know what politics mean:
Poli is latin for many
Tics are those little blood sucking creatures...
Now it's time to go back for our regular Packard broadcasting.
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