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The future! (i.imgflip.com)
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The top car is a 1956 Astra-Gnome concept car (never actually manufactured for us). Photo credit / more info: https://www.petersen.org/vehicle-spotlights/1956-astra-gnome

The bottom vehicle is a dumpster sold by a wanker.

Two panel meme - top panel: picture of a car thought futuristic in the 1950s, with the text, "The future we were promised". Bottom panel: picture of a crashed Tesla Cybertruck, with the text: "The world we got"
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[–] 6 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Big problem with biofuels currently is production. We haven't figured out how to grow enough food AND biomass for fuel.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    And a bunch of the food is more or less fossil fuels turned into corn. Solar+wind+battery with some nuclear power mixed in is probably the way, but long haul transport might be able to work on bio if we could get out of the growth only economy of late stage of capitalism.

    I sometimes imagine a world where we make things that last, or can be repaired and our population has leveled off so that we can stop making the line go up and just keep it at some sustainable level. A lot of thing could change and keep us all happy.

    Maybe my kid’s grandkids will see it.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (4 children)

    Then get an EV. Or drive less, or just pay the premium for biofuels, if you absolutely MUST have an internal combustion engine.

    We have to stop using fossil fuels. We just have to. And it's not just about the climate, although that should be reason enough. Fossil fuels are non-renewable. Once fossil fuel reserves are depleted, they cannot be replenished on human timescales. And I know, I know, people will swear up and down that we're not in danger of fossil fuel reserves becoming depleted anytime soon, but it's inevitable, even if it isn't imminent.

    Plus, we've already depleted most of the reserves that were relatively cheap and easy to extract, so what's left is only going to get more difficult and more expensive to get out of the ground. Oil extraction would have peaked a long time ago if we didn't start using more expensive extraction methods like hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which comes with its own ecological issues.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I ride a bike and take public transit.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    Good! Whatever people can do to stop using fossil fuels is what needs to happen.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    I guarantee getting another 30 years out of my 30 year old car is lower impact than buying a new one because it's electric

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Look, maybe you will be able to get another 30 years out of your car, and if so good for you, but eventually we have to stop using fossil fuels. That's all I'm saying. The longer we keep using oil, the more impacts on the climate. But also, the more oil we use, the faster it runs out. And once it's gone, it's just gone. Forever, no more. Sure, we probably won't run out in 30 years, but it is a finite resource so we run out eventually. I just don't know why people are in such a hurry to completely use it all up as quickly as possible, especially knowing what it's doing to the climate. I just don't get it.

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