Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "driving 4 answers" channel.

Yes. It's yet again and "environmental" policy that was actually about industrial money. Shocker. In Canada, our terrible finance minister was on record years ago, saying that the carbon tax was simply about increasing government revenues.
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One, they don't. Most are V6. Two, there is physically the space. European cities are made for golf carts. Three, BS emissions rules that technically show that big polluting trucks are more fuel efficent (as a ratio) than smaller trucks so they can't sell smaller trucks even though in the real world they are way less polluting, just not as a ratio vs size. It's insane.
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I'm willing to bet that those numbers they give for how many people are dying just so happen to increase massively as soon as there was a self-serving reason for the people who came up with those conclusions to come up with those conclusions.
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@d4a "Im not against nor pro nuclear, " I don't buy that for a second. You're smart guy and probably don't want to get caught up in that public debate but you know damn well it's far and away the most efficient and least polluting source of energy, and that the number of people killed directly by radiation can be counted on one hand.
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@grizwoldphantasia5005 Agreed. They learn that it's short term profitable and good for their careers to virtue signal. When the bill comes, they blame everyone else and vow to fix the problem after the next election.
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In America the reason you can't buy a small, fuel efficient badass pickup truck ideal for urban living is because of emissions standards, haha. They go by a ratio so the big trucks that use MORE gas are technically considered more fuel efficient by the standard. Big trucks are more profits for manufacturers. What a coincidence!
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@pbe6965 you nailed it. The entire issue of renewable energy is basically a battery issue. If we could efficiently store power, then we would be laughing. Initial power generation isn't the problem. The fact that it has to be generated extremely evenly to function with the power grid is the problem. If we could take the excess and pump it into a new battery that had incredibly high cycle, life and minimal drain, we'd be good to go. Invent that and overnight you become the richest human being to have ever existed, and it wouldn't even be particularly close..
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@xyouthe So it's bad to protect yourself? I'm not sure what you're trying to say. You're advocating both die instead so it's equal?
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Do they have car share programs there? In Canada in major cities you can just buy the rights to rent certain vehicles scattered around the city. That means no actual ownership, yet easy availability if you do want to use one. You don't even pay for fuel. If you only drive a few times per month it's way cheaper than owning a car.
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@davemccage7918 EV's do use steam power, if you account for how the electricity is generated before it gets to the charging station 😉
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