1: Public transit money is (shamefully) scarce. I say buy whatever technology gets us more transit per dollar. Either way, a diesel bus full of 30 people is objectively better than 30 EVs on the road.
2: People with grudges against EVs are truly weird, they're just cars with a different drivetrain. "The market" has not decided that they are shit, because they're still not available and still arbitrarily expensive.
3: People who insist on fixing their cars themselves are calling out their age - this is a fundamentally alien concept to anyone born after 1985 and will just keep getting more alien over time. DIY repair stopped being a thing after the first gen NA Miata and is not a relevant argument in favour of gas cars in any way in 2025.
I'd love a world where we didn't have to drop 5-digits a year to maintain a depreciating asset, gas or electric, but until public transit gets funding without begging every year that will never happen. If anti-EV people were truly against more e-waste and battery disposal and rare-earth mineral mining, they'd be working hard to make transit viable... but they generally aren't.
2: People with grudges against EVs are truly weird, they're just cars with a different drivetrain. "The market" has not decided that they are shit, because they're still not available and still arbitrarily expensive.
3: People who insist on fixing their cars themselves are calling out their age - this is a fundamentally alien concept to anyone born after 1985 and will just keep getting more alien over time. DIY repair stopped being a thing after the first gen NA Miata and is not a relevant argument in favour of gas cars in any way in 2025.
I'd love a world where we didn't have to drop 5-digits a year to maintain a depreciating asset, gas or electric, but until public transit gets funding without begging every year that will never happen. If anti-EV people were truly against more e-waste and battery disposal and rare-earth mineral mining, they'd be working hard to make transit viable... but they generally aren't.
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