Electric vs Gas
xkcd.com

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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

  • 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    14·
    6 months ago

    Not owning a personal vehicle is only okay if you live in the heart of a city …

    Like most people in the western world (and indeed likely in most of the world) do.

    … and don’t go outside of that little bubble.

    Because rental of smaller vehicle services (like taxis, etc.) is totally not a thing.

    The problem here is that you have the American disease (even if you’re not American). You’re so infused with the cultural insistence that there’s only one way to do things … the way things are done now … that you literally cannot conceive of a life without cars (or guns, or with public health care). Despite this being, you know, the norm for most of the world.

    • lemmyingly@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Like most people in the western world (and indeed likely in most of the world) do.

      I’m going to have to see a source for this claim.

      I know the person has merit in their argument when they go on the personal attack. 👍

    • Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      Im sorry but how else do you drive 2 hours into the middle of the woods where there are no other people around so you can get away from godawful society for a while if not owning your own car? Im certainly not going to pay someone else to drive me out to a favorite low/no traffic spot just to show everyone where it is and then ruin it.