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   Bryan Culbertson (bryanculbertson@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 11:15:58 JST Bryan Culbertson

   Cars are causing climate change

   The only way we have a livable planet in the future is we must quickly build a world where we take transit, bike, and walk

   We cannot afford to build even one more mile of highways

   https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/ghg-inventory-data

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     Bryan Culbertson (bryanculbertson@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 11:15:57 JST Bryan Culbertson

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     There are 280M cars in the US and less than 1% of them are EVs

     To replace all cars with EVs in 10 years would require people to purchase 28M new EVs per year which is more than double the total number of cars ever sold in one year. DOUBLE!

     The average cost of a new car is $50k. To replace all 280M cars with EVs would cost $14 Trillion with the big T.

     We would have to dedicate 6% of our GDP just to replacing cars.

     EVs will only ever be a small part of the solution to climate change

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     Bryan Culbertson (bryanculbertson@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 11:15:57 JST Bryan Culbertson

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     To look at this from another angle

     Currently only 1M EVs are sold per year with industry projected growth to 5M by 2030. At this optimistic rate we won't replace all 280M gas powered cars until 2050 which would be at approximately 15 years too late to keep us from going over 2 degrees of global warming

     It is financially and physically impossible to stop catastrophic levels of global warming unless we drastically reduce car travel