I drive commercially.

There are no fully electric, or even hybrid, options for the type of vehicle I drive.

And even if there were, are you (tax payers) prepared to buy it for me, because I’m not due for an upgrade for about another 400,000 kilometres.

Can’t put wind generated watt-hours in my diesel tank.

Can’t put wishful thinking in my cars petrol tank.

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AnthonyMouse 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> And even if there were, are you (tax payers) prepared to buy it for me, because I’m not due for an upgrade for about another 400,000 kilometres.

400,000 km is around two years for a commercial driver, isn't it?

	▲	ninalanyon 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		In the EU it would be about 7 000 hours of driving so more like three years, or more. What kind of vehicle is it though? There are battery electric vehicles available now in almost all commercial vehicle segments in Europe.

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mindslight 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It seems like you should want the types of vehicles that can avoid using fossil fuels to do so, to keep your own prices down?

What is with this attitude of reflexively interpreting the development of alternatives as if they are mandatory ?

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TheSpiceIsLife 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Whether I wanting them or not is irrelevant to the fact that they presently don’t exist, and that I’m not due for a new vehicle for years.

I did try to make that clear in the comment you replied to.

The battery technology doesn’t exist.

	▲	mindslight 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think you misread my comment. I'm asking why you wouldn't want other types of vehicles that can be electrified to be electrified, such that there is less demand for the diesel that yours requires. For example I've got a tractor that burns diesel, for effectively homeowner use. I too am not going to be replacing this piece of capital equipment any time soon (even though electrical would actually be better in a lot of regards). But since trucking is reliant on diesel and quite demand-insensistive, the Epstein war recently made diesel prices jump 60%. Whereas the fewer economically-critical vehicles there are being powered by diesel (even just the short range ones), the less that price would have spiked.

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lovich an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You know if demand goes down for fossil fuels because the grid is powered by renewables then the cost would decrease right?

Also “kilometers”? “petrol tank”? Thanks for holding three fingers up and letting me know you’re cosplaying as an American

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brewdad 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This deal has zero to do with someone like you. This impacts our electrical grid. Now instead of harvesting renewable wind energy we will be burning LNG to power that portion of the grid.

I suppose there are still some diesel generators out there, so they might burn that instead. Of course, that only makes you worse off.