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Luckily work paid for this tank full... (lemmy.wtf)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/australia@aussie.zone
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The first servo I stopped at had run out of diesel. A tank normally costs me $100 less.

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[–] 29 points 7 months ago (16 children)

I'm bloody happy to have an EV

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    If only we had electric trucks hauling goods around the country

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    or electric trains :(

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I think that's probably a little more difficult for interstate runs

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

    why? they are more fuel efficient than fleets of trucks, cheaper to build, run and maintain than roads, better for the environment by not spewing microplastics into the environment, and to top it off, move more stuff for less labor.

    look at china for examples of long distance train networks designed and deployed rapidly.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Australia is as wide as, and is taller than USA. It's a large country

    We have one main train line across the country horizontally, and two vertically. The vast majority is uninhabited.

    We're talking about an infrastructure project that has to supply reliable high voltage power across the entire country (4000 km), build multiple new train lines across the entire country, and even then you still need trucks for distribution within states as rail is not capable of last mile delivery (or even hundreds of kilometres of areas unserviced by rail)

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    dang so true, if only we were one of the wealthiest most indistrialised nations in the world and had plenty to spend on climate forward nationalised projects in the workers interests.

    shit talking aside, you are right, we will never be rid of roads in this country for a very long time.

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  • [–] -2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    This comment is in all of these threads.

    The food you eat is produced and transported to you with diesel.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I really wish I had turned my backyard into a vegetable garden last fall

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago

    This is pretty much the same comment.

    Even if you drive an EV and grow 100% of your own food, every member of your community is going to be drowning in these costs.

    That means they have less money to spend at local businesses, and so on and so forth.

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