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Amazon is a net positive for energy in car dependent places. It's more energy efficient to drop something off than for someone to drive to the store to buy it. You can get significant economies of scale and those apply to energy usage.

Beyond that, we can and will eventually force Amazon to use EVs if they don't by themselves to save money, which is possible.

I'm all for strongly inducing people to use trains, buses, ebikes, and the like.

We can advocate for clean energy, and we should. But advocating against zero-sum energy usage is perfectly fine and completely consistent with good economic policy.

The internet never used all that much energy. The computers were there anyways, and when it was in its speculative stage it was piggy-backing off the telephone network for most of the actual transmission. It was never even close to a power hog until it became very evident how useful it was.