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Originally Posted by MartinSE
Okay, I gotta call you on that one. WHO is calling for ICE cars to be banned in 10 years?
And you are stuck saying what EVs cost today most people can not afford. That is a GOOD thing. There are 300 million ICE vehicles in America alone. Tesla is making 1 million cars per year (this year) and hopes to make 2Million next year, that means we could replace all those in ONLY 150 years.
So, please, no one is suggesting we can replace 300 million cars in 10 years. Even with all the other manufactures jumping on board, most are years from production, and certainly can not phase out ICE cars in less than a decade and that would be an amazingly fast product change over.
So, once again, other than some Youtube video, WHO in power to do so, is suggesting we ban ICE cars in 10 years.
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"Biden has set a goal of eliminating pollution from fossil fuel in the power sector by 2035 and from the U.S. economy overall by 2050.."
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"SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that he will aggressively move the state further away from its reliance on climate change-causing fossil fuels while retaining and creating jobs and spurring economic growth – he issued an executive order requiring sales of all new passenger vehicles to be zero-emission by 2035 and additional measures to eliminate harmful emissions from the transportation sector."
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There's more, but I don't want to bore everyone.
Like I said, I have nothing against the EV industry. I am against eliminating or banning ICE vehicles. Until someone can produce transportation that EVERYONE can afford, the world needs fossil fuel. And pricing gasoline so high that the working Joe can't afford it, is not going to make the transition any easier.
I am not overly concerned with air pollution right now, considering we have better air quality now than when I was a kid. It is not a one idea or nothing. It is a combination of many different ideas to solve a problem of this sort. Why is it that some folks believe that there is only one way to solve air pollution?