Let me ask Facebook how credible this study is...

What we really should have done is made the Car Talk guys president. If there's one thing I know for sure, it's that those two would never have forced me to listen to what some MIT grad thinks.

Absolute gold! (The hosts of Car Talk were both MIT grads)

MIT Study VS Facebook posts. Hard choice.

Yeah but I heard this one scientist said one time that EVs actually cause more cancers and make trees grow less leaves

Science back then: after long work we were able to create a vaccine, and we managed to eradicate small pox completely.

Science now: we did a study to prove something on Facebook isn't true.

Speaking as someone who has worked on plenty of gasoline powered cars.... Duh. The most obvious waste product an internal combustion car makes other than the exhaust is the used oil. Have to do something with it. Have to make sure the engine isn't leaking out into the environment when it's running.

Even if you are charging your car from a coal plant, it's more efficient. A coal power plant runs at one speed/output all the time. Gas cars have to throttle up and down. Each gas car has to be maintained by the person owning it, while the power plant has a maintenance team and inspections.

I can tell you that keeping an existing decent ICE is better than buying a new EV. But once you have to buy a new car anyway, and an EV fits your usage pattern and operational environment there are no reasons not to buy one.

The batteries do contain rare minerals like lithium but these can be recovered and recycled. EVs can be charged with solar, wind and other renewables even tho many places in the USA still burn coal or natural gas.

Once you burn gasoline in your ICE vehicle then it’s gone, it turns into gasses that go into the atmosphere and can’t easily be recovered into anything of much use.

EVs are the future and we all know it. Gasoline will continue to become more expensive and more difficult to extract.

worst part of getting old is watching everyone around you gradually get dumber

The only “everyone” are trolls, paid or otherwise, the ignorant, and right wingnuts parroting the trolls and ignorant.

And there are a shitload of them who all seem to want to show off that opinion.

Hey, I did my own research!!!!1!1!!

I didn't realise anyone still uses facebook. Like in developed countries I mean.

Burning petroleum is one of the most destructive things you can do and it is absolutely common to do it. Everyday a single vehicles emits enough pollution to kill countless people. It gives them cancer and when combined with lead has resulted in hundreds of millions of deaths. It is absolutely insane people continue supporting this technology.

A second hand ICE car is still better than a new EV though.

We kinda solved cars 15 years ago as an ICE car from 2010 is almost indistinguishable from a new one. I'm waiting for my 2008 toyota to retire but it just keeps on going to the point where I think it'll last me 10 more years. I don't drive much but it takes e20 as fuel (heavily dilutated gasoline) and with CVT gearbox it's super cheap to maintain so I really don't feel like me upgrading to an EV would make any difference other than promote EV infrastructure.

My next car will definitely be an EV though primary because I expect battery tech to be much better by then.

that college buddy who dropped grad school to become a chiropractor

Gold.

I genuinely thought i misread the title... Wtf

Of course fossil fuels are worse, but that doesn't mean EVs are a magically green utopia machine either.

Gas cars are better! (says the gas station owner)