A lot of the EU is back in home office, again, or riding the bus or e-bike. Sales of e-cars are headed up, despite relatively moderate gasoline price increases.
Let's get off oil, and stay off, guys....
Sure.
Drive up prices on rare earth metals and increase strip mining while increasing dependence on China for the dirty bits of refining ores.
That process still relies on cheap hydrocarbons.
There is no cheap hydrocarbons because of regulation and taxes and because demand keeps increasing because nuclear isn't being built out to accommodate growth.
So... All of this is doomed to fail when one of those links gets cut or fails.
Plus... Electric cars are fully externally controllable. I can run nearly any ICE with self-brewed hooch, biodiesel, or even wood gas. Can't do that with electric. I'll always bias my long term plans towards independance instead of increasing dependence on centralized systems.
Drive up prices on rare earth metals and increase strip mining while increasing dependence on China for the dirty bits of refining ores.
That process still relies on cheap hydrocarbons.
There is no cheap hydrocarbons because of regulation and taxes and because demand keeps increasing because nuclear isn't being built out to accommodate growth.
So... All of this is doomed to fail when one of those links gets cut or fails.
Plus... Electric cars are fully externally controllable. I can run nearly any ICE with self-brewed hooch, biodiesel, or even wood gas. Can't do that with electric. I'll always bias my long term plans towards independance instead of increasing dependence on centralized systems.
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