Comments by "S Andersson" (@sandersson2813) on "Why Gas Engines Are Far From Dead - Biggest EV Problems" video.

@devito7729 Are you being deliberately dense? Polestar (Volvo EV cars) have produced a report that an EV needs to be driven for 30,000-70, 000km to overtake a conventional ICE car in terms of being greener depending on what type of electricity grid you are on. The majority of countries use gas to power the grid, so your electric car is charged mostly by gas power stations. Even if you took all the cars off the roads in Europe, and replaced them with EV's, that would reduce global CO2 by a whopping 0.5%. Why bother? Why not attack sources of C02 which are more significant first?
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@Adams4000 I'm talking about the contribution that cars IN EUROPE make to global C02. This equates to only 1% of global C02, but if you replace this with EV's this requires a lot of carbon and fossil fuel to make them and to power them so this 1% figure reduces to 0,5% Heating and cooling property, industry, concrete production etc is a far greater source of CO2, yet the doomsday cults seem to ignore this and pretend it doesn't exist. It's all very well saying "what if"? But you haven't asked yourself who is going to pay for all this stuff have you? Who is paying for the renewable infrastructure? Want to buy a wet boiler to replace your gas one? That's a considerable outlay and then the electricity costs four times what gas costs, so bravo. That's really going to suit countries on the borderline of poverty isn't it? Who's going to pay for the solar panels? Have you seen the cost of them? 🤣 🤣 By the way, most of the solar panels you see on houses are heating water, not generating electricity. Our electricity grids doesn't store data either other than in kinetic energy of a few small Hydro schemes.
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@Adams4000 The oil and gas industry is not subsidised in real terms at all. It is the most highly taxed industry in the country so any subsidy is more than paid for in the taxes paid back. You probably won't know this but some oil fields are taxed at a rate of 80% in the pound. Name another industry that pays that sort of amount in taxes? There is none. Furthermore, how is the government paying for solar power? The government gets its money from TAXATION. So are you happy to pay more tax for virtue signalling? You could cut European emissions to nothing today, and it wouldn't make the slightest bit of difference to the world CO2 . The issue is America, Russia, Brazil, India and China. Anything we do makes no difference at all whilst they do nothing. If I buy an EV, depending on the type of grid I'm connected to, I'll have to drive it for between 30-70,000 km before it overtakes an ice car in terms of CO2. Those figures come from a Polestar report and they make EV cars. I buy a new car about every 40,000 miles, so I'll never own a car as green as my current petrol one, besides European cars only account for 1% of all global emissions. So again, its virtue signalling. Even if you replaced all of Europe with EV cars, until they'd done 50,000 km each there would be zero reduction in European CO2.
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