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Originally Posted by Alan47717
What on earth does a "3 to 4 year break even period" even mean to people whose drinking and irrigation water supplies are threatened by a mining process that turns 2,000 gallons of water into toxic sludge for every pound of lithium produced?
Pure meaningless environmentalist bafflegab. The only reason BEV's can be successfully sold as an environmental savior is because the environmental destruction their manufacturing causes occurs out of sight of the affluent class of people buying them.
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The same could be said for most of the fancy crap people buy - clothes, shoes, furniture, etc.
Unfortunately, there is little to no sincere academic effort being put into honestly understanding the environmental impact of building an EV and any study that occurs will omit any data that is inconvenient to the desired result. We live in a time where science is anything you like with omission of anything that disagrees, and questioning that is a micro aggression.
Given recent events, anything that accurately and truthfully identifies anything negative about EV construction and material sourcing will soon be defined as "misinformation" that can cause "EV purchase hesitancy". I wish I was kidding.
When we mandate what should be a free-market force, we see escalation due to the predicted supply shortage for an unnatural demand increase. I fear that desirable EV will become even less attainable, not more, for most of the population as costs continue to increase with inflation and actual purchase power plummets. Then shaming of those who haven't agreed to comply will likely follow (also a recent trend). Even today, the affluent are publicly mocking people complaining about gas prices because they can A. afford any gas price and B. can afford (and may own) a luxury EV. Hell, the Kia EV6 starts at $40k and goes to $60k... for a Kia. Even the carbon footprint of shipping that vehicle across the ocean is not trivial... and isn't well documented because we tend to ignore the MASSIVE pollution that international shipping causes.
We're moving away from the purpose of this forum as this is more of an off-topic discussion. But we've come this far, so why not let it roll till mods close/delete the thread!
/rant