Originally Posted by
chihuahua
In Europe. Nothing.
At home, stop with the green BS and accept the fact that fossil fuel isn't going anywhere, in any of our lifetimes. Also, if you want to be clean, nuclear. And lets stop devaluing our currency. That would be nice too. Beyond that, actually give politicians and elites that commit crimes the common man would spend time in prison for, the same punishment. All this would be a major step in the right direction.
There is a ton of greenwashing BS floating around. But I will not accept that we can't break free of fossil fuels. We may not be able to get rid of them of all of them but we could become a vast oil exporter like Saudi Arabia or Russia to those suckers that still use it. If we continue to transition our cars, trucks and most Semis to EVs we can slowly bring the reliance of this country on oil and the costs that come with it to an end. That means we don't have to care what OPEC says, we don't have care about Venezuela, we don't need carriers in the Arabian Sea and we can stop sending money to countries that hate us and wish to do us harm. All of the electricity created to run EVs are done right in America by Americans. The transmision lines, power generation and everything associated with it are all kept inside America. That means the jobs are not in some far away oilfields scattered around the world or oceans they are all here. That means all the investments, all the jobs and all the money stays in the country and is circulated from Americans to Americans and not Saudis, Mexicans, Canadians, Iranians, Venezuelans, Russians, etc.
Build the Nuclear, build the solar, build the wind, drill for more oil in America, open the pipelines all of which will get us independent of needing any other nation for energy while keeping our own money from flowing out of the Country.
I have 2 EVs with solar on my roof. When people talk about high gas prices I don't have to worry how much it will cost to fill up. I do worry about the instability it will bring and the higher prices I will have to pay for everything shipped. Most of which could be mitigated by transitioning to EVs. I understand that ships would still run on bunker oil or other forms of fossil fuel but most of the supply chain costs associated with transportation would not be at the whims of speculators, OPEC and other other oil producing nations. This not only would keep the money here in America but selling the oil to others that have not made the transition away from oil would make the U.S. Hundreds of Billions a year in revenue.