> every energy crisis brings opportunity to saturate the airwaves with shallow noise that gets people overly upset and they’ll ignore everything else.

At least their version has an obvious solution: Make electric cars and solar panels and then stop having oil problems.

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lukan 13 hours ago | parent [-]

The speeding debate won't go away with this, though, as speeding is not about oil.

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ArnoVW 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I believe the idea is that friction and resistance is proportional to the square of the speed. After a certain speed, every 10 mph extra starts to really count in your mileage.

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krater23 10 hours ago | parent [-]

The idea is that some green ideologists think that when they don't need to drive a car because they don't leave their city, no one needs to drive a car. Because car driving creates CO2 which means car driving is bad. And they search for ways to implement that or make driving a car as bad as possible. Because they can't make the Deutsche Bahn better, they have to make driving your own car worse.

	▲	kuerbel 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		An EV is the superior vehicle in every aspect. Cheap fuel, reliable, nice to drive, less maintenance costs, less noisy and yes, no local emissions.
	▲	AnthonyMouse 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		But then why not just make car driving not create CO2?

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AnthonyMouse 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You still can't get people upset about gas prices every time there isn't peace in the middle east once they stop buying gas.