• FrankHerbert@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Until gasoline became unavailable (while still being needed by billions of people) because of terrorism instead of a more reasonable approach.

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      1 year ago

      Gasoline won’t become unavailable. There is too much redundancy built into the production and distribution networks.

      What would happen is the price of gasoline would rise, which would further drive electric vehicle adoption.

      OP’s approach is infinitely superior to harassing drivers directly.

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        Oil prices rising won’t just affect cars that run on petroleum products. All your electricity bill will probably rise as well unless power in your area is 100% provided by renewable energy.

        Even then, most renewable energy still rely on fossil fuel to run the vehicles for transporting and maintaining their infrastructure, so now even that cost would sharply increase.

        Talking about EVs, just which EV companies have eliminated the involvement of any fossil fuel in their supply line? Unless we have enough of these supply lines, EV prices will also increase for the majority of people.

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          Very few electric plants burn petroleum products. Fossil fuel plants typically burn either coal or natural gas, neither of which would be significantly affected by disruption of oil-based infrastructure.

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      1 year ago

      🤔 Okay, let’s hack the banks, redistribute all of the money electronically and then pay for electric infrastructure ourselves.