Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "Tesla Battery Damage? I Ran Over A Metal Bucket" video.

  1.  @jasonjaafar  - “the battery will be recycled” Not really happening yet. Maybe someday, hopefully someday. These are not lead acid batteries. “Once gasoline is burned” Once the electricity is used, you have to generate more. The battery is equivalent to a gas tank on an ICE car. A battery is just a big expensive gas tank that is not as easily recycled as a steel gas tank in an ice car. “Petroleum is a finite source” Not really. You can make it from CO2. Natural gas and hydrogen can also be used instead of gasoline. Petroleum is just easy to get, since crude has seeped out of the ground for thousands of years. “Petroleum… mining is also destructive to the environment” Oil spoils the environment, by just existing. It is better to clean up the tar sands by removing it & using it, rather than just letting it spoil the land. It will eventually bubble up out of the earth & spew into the oceans with a small earthquake, so we might as well not let it go to waste, and just use it. Harvesting petroleum will not stop with the advent of electric vehicles… it is used for water bottles, cups, disposable silverware, disposable plates,clothing, carpets, house siding, roofing, flooring, paint, electric motor windings, electric wire insulation, plastic car parts, battery separators, etc. Moving to electric cars will do little about harvesting oil. The amount of copper mines opened for all the wire needed for EV’s & charging stations is outrageous. And petroleum is used for all that mining & transport & refining of copper. None of this is to say that EV or plug in hybrids are bad things, the better we can conserve petroleum, the better for humanity. There are just better ways to conserve it.
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