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I’d argue trains are the solution for most city applications.
Rural areas can keep ICE’s if cities of tens of millions dispense themselves of cars.
Great, I agree too, but go ahead and start lobbying the US government to build more.
I'm all for your suggestions, but the fact of the matter is we need solutions yesterday and to build what you're talking about will take 10 years of lobbying alone. California HSR is going to be another 10 years and they're already building it.
EVs are a stopgap measure, we all know it.
I have no interest in lobbying the US government on this.
well then please don't shoot down the next best alternative. We would love HSR, hell even faster trains through areas like the Midwest, but no one is building them and no one wants to lobby for them. Until then we're stuck in this car-centric hell, and EVs are the best alternative. (Again, we all know they're not the best, they're the best alternative)
I have no interest in lobbying the US government because I’m not American.
So you want to keep drilling for oil forever? Oil wells, pipe lines, refineries, more pipes, trucks carrying liquid fuel... when you could just get rid of all that and have renewable powered cars?
There's a brief window where if you look at it from a very careful angle ICE is briefly better in some ways than electric, long term electric is the only option.