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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

  • undergroundoverground@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Because “better overall” is a silly concept to use here, and is bring deliberately done to “both sides” the debate.

    For driving really fast: petrol

    For not killing our planets ability to sustain himan life: electric

    Its not that hard

    • Gladaed@feddit.de
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      3 months ago

      Driving really fast is electric, still. Driving fast and quite far is not.

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        3 months ago

        Eradicating personal vehicles is not feasible.

        Not owning a personal vehicle is only okay if you live in the heart of a city and don’t go outside of that little bubble. All other scenarios massively benefit from a personal vehicle; even going from one side of a city to another.

        • Not owning a personal vehicle is only okay if you live in the heart of a city …

          Like most people in the western world (and indeed likely in most of the world) do.

          … and don’t go outside of that little bubble.

          Because rental of smaller vehicle services (like taxis, etc.) is totally not a thing.

          The problem here is that you have the American disease (even if you’re not American). You’re so infused with the cultural insistence that there’s only one way to do things … the way things are done now … that you literally cannot conceive of a life without cars (or guns, or with public health care). Despite this being, you know, the norm for most of the world.