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Lets save the planet with further exploitation of the planet.

[thehappypm]

What’s the alternative? Continue with fossil fuels? Pick your poison.

[chuckwolfe]

I see no reason why we can’t have both. Let the free market decide.

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There is no good alternative unfortunately, but the belief that electric cars are "better" for the planet is utterly ridiculous and false.

[thehappypm]

How so?

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The total energy cost of producing and using the Tesla Model S Long Range battery pack for example, including battery production, lithium extraction, transportation, the energy cost of building the Gigafactory, battery transportation, battery recycling, diesel fuel required to generate electricity to charge the battery, and the environmental costs of battery disposal and battery fires, is equivalent to about 3,088,431 barrels of oil.

[thehappypm]

That’s like, one oil tanker to produce an entire fleet of cars?

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Source: https://clifhigh.substack.com/p/3-million-barrels-of-oil-per...