Originally Posted By: HTSS_TR
Originally Posted By: Shannow
I know that the OP "doesn't care" what happens in other countries.
Why should I care about dirty air outside US ?
Did you see the list of 10 dirtiest city in US in 2016 I posted ? Four CA cities were the worse in the list and Los Angeles was the dirtiest city in US in 2016. This is what I care the most since I live less than 50 miles form LA. The air in my city isn't as dirty but it isn't as clean as it should be.
I am selfish, I care for my family and myself first before worrying about people oversea.
The city of LA did replaced dirty diesel buses with CNG buses few years ago. Any large city in US with diesel buses should think/plan about replacing it with electric buses.
If you like diesel bus and believe it is a clean bus why don't you let a bus parks on front of your house with its engine running, and pipe the exhaust into your house to breath the clean air from the bus engine?
Although we disagree on as many things as we disagree on, I do have respect for your making surprisingly cogent arguments.
This was not one of those times.
You do realize that our atmosphere is constantly circulating throughout the world?
I do understand your typical electric/greenie attitude in which you don't care about what pollution goes on outside of the United States. It allows you green/electric guys to ignore the fact that the third world environment will be destroyed at a shocking rate to make all of those "clean" electric car technologies:
No big deal though. We no longer have a need to rape Canada for nickel. We can keep raping South America and leveling the rain forests to get the massive quantities of lithium for all those batteries. And we can keep raping Asia for the other rare metals (that are more finite than coal or oil) needed to make the electric motors.
The thing you keep forgetting is that electric cars have
never been tested as a proof-of-concept at mass levels. Back when the ICE first hit the scene emitting a little blue smoke; instead of defecating and dying in the street like its predecessor, was thought to be very environmentally friendly.
The electric vehicle will never be environmentally friendly. It only looks that way now, because numbers are small. Same reason why even a state like California does not bother to keep up with emission testing on old cars, hot rods, or the vehicles that receive those "special registrations" from your state annually. Small numbers, small impact.
If there are hundreds of millions of these electric cars being built, the Earth is completely humped.