07-05-2022, 09:44 PM
(07-05-2022, 08:50 PM)tommymck_imp Wrote: Yeah, agree with Randy. I don't deny the current environmental and climate issues, but all of the pearl clutching associated with fuel type only helps at the margins. It's true that electric vehicle emissions are lower than gas powered vehicle emissions, but not by enough to really matter when you take into account the generation part of the energy equation. The only way to create a meaningful impact is to reduce the actual amount of energy required per-capita. That requires behavior change, and good luck with that. Heck, it would make much more of an impact if we forced everybody to ride motorcycles!
This is where I be the doomer downer and remind everybody that motorcycle emissions are much worse than cars
motorcyclists as a group are responsible ffor only a teensy weensy fraction of the overall emissions worldwide, but if EVERYBODY was using gas bikes, emissions would be worse.
The real point of attack if you're talking about global emissions reduction is electricity generation (power plants), shipping oversea, Military vessels, and airplane emissions. The pie chart of pollution of planet earth is dominated by those items.