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by vel0city 938 days ago
> keep using their ICE car instead of throwing them away to buy a Tesla

I imagine very few people are taking their older ICE and crushing it and shoving it into a landfill once they buy a Tesla.

Buying the Tesla is (usually) offsetting the sale of a different new ICE and selling/trading in the old care to add to the used market, not demanding a new car that would have never been built to come into existence and then destroying the old car.

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This is the right line of thinking. Best to consider the situations where someone buys a Tesla vs. what would've happened instead.