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by uejfiweun 1259 days ago
I mean anyone who legitimately drives an EV to help the environment is deluding themselves. Not only is car pollution a negligible fraction of overall emissions, but it's far more harmful and resource intensive to get materials required to make EVs, and there are plenty of second order effects such as this and power generation required that result in even more emissions.
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This is basically the Big Oil propaganda line, and it's been pretty thoroughly debunked. EVs are way more environmentally friendly than ICE vehicles over their lifespan.