"EVs are jumping the gun. Maybe they'll be ready in ten years," says man who wonders why his house in Florida is no longer insurable.
"Banning plastic bags is a waste of time!" says woman with measurable levels of microplastics in her blood.
"It's too expensive to build all-electric houses with solar," says the construction company owner who's lobbying against building code changes during the hottest year in 100,000 years.
I'm fascinated by the idea of "gasoline superusers" converted to EVs.
"By contrast, the top 10 percent of motorists in the United States drive an average of about 40,200 miles per year and account for roughly one-third of the nation’s gasoline use. Persuading more of these “gasoline superusers” to go electric would lead to a much faster reduction in emissions, the Coltura report found."
https://coltura.org/gasoline-superusers-3-report/
Explainer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S5XANpxVtw
“This new set of documents further demonstrates that #Shell privately knew about the dangers its products would cause to the environment yet continued to deceive the public in pursuit of company profits. This is wrong and potentially illegal,” said U.S. Representative Ted Lieu of California.
"With more proof of Shell’s climate deception, Rep. Ted Lieu is once again urging the Department of Justice to look into whether fossil fuel companies broke the law."
#ShellKnew
https://www.exxonknews.org/p/congressman-doj-investigation-of
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