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by davidgoldtooth 1157 days ago
Perhaps for a $300 dollar steak or a $10,000 pair of socks which I’m sure also exists somewhere , but the exception does not disprove the rule. Price is correlated almost perfectly with the energy it took to create the item for the majority of consumer goods and thus CO2. This is why switching to green energy will not work as your expensive lithium batteries actually took an enormous amount of resources to make and so on. Rising inflation and rising consumer prices are the opposite of what we need.
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I'm so glad there are at least a few people who recognize this. Things like electric vehicles only make sense if they have a lower lifetime total cost of ownership than an equivalent ICE alternative.