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Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"It doesn't matter if someone occasionally steals your bike" is.. one hell of a crap take.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Why? Using a car you can lock up seems like a better alternative intuitively, I am pointing out that other than the emotional distress of having an object of yours stolen, owning a car is a regular rolling disaster of costs and suffering that dwarfs somebody running off with your $800 used e-bike every couple of months.

How is this a bad take? It is literally a documented phenomena that people don’t rationally take into account how expensive owning and using a car is.