US interest in electric vehicles surges as gas prices jump amid Iran war

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Lemmy

Seriously, I never understood why conservatives who are genuinely concerned about national security issues haven’t been more open to moving to an electrified transportation system. We don’t have a ton of oil here. Its extraction is costly and dangerous, so we’re largely reliant upon foreign oil. That means we’re vulnerable to exploitation by oil producing countries. We keep shooting ourselves in the foot… and we keep insisting on using a shotgun.
  • The US does have a ton of oil, Alaska is full of it.

  • In Rural areas, EVs are less practical.

  • Republicans like what Fox News tells them to like and the fossil fuel industry owns Fox News.

  • In Rural areas, EVs are less practical.

    id say more practical, you can use solar panels on your roof and charge in your garage. Here in Australia that’s what I do in my rural location.

    We have also used V2L to run our refrigerator, freezer,router, charge devices and a couple lights at night in a recent power outage, no. oise pissing off neighbors as well, rural areas tend to suffer power outages more because of the transmission line damage from storms.etc and ev’s add some resilience

    EVs are problematic in condos for charging but all cars in cities are shitty anyway