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> I also still get to feel smug because the environmental cost of producing a new electric car is WAY greater than the petrol I’m burning.

Citation very much needed.

Electric cars are still cars, and therefore terrible for the environment, but they do emit significantly less pollution over their lives and require a lot less oil to operate.



It’s not hard to estimate. The car is a sunk cost from 8 years ago.

I drive about 1000 miles a year. That’s about 250kg of co2 a year.

A new car uses something like 20 tonnes of co2 to make it.

So that’s 80 years of driving for me.

Obviously if I BUY a new car, it’ll be electric (but hopefully someone will have made a dumb electric car by then)




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