Key context: thermodynamics dictates that heat engines waste a lot of energy.

Credit: Karin Kirk

A pickup truck belching a big cloud of black exhaust. Inside the cloud in white text: Wait, 80% of my gas money goes out the tailpipe? How come Exxon never told me that?
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[–] 3 points 2 years ago

The meme only mentions the efficiency of the vehicle so it'd be unfair and in bad faith to compare it to to electric infrastructure and assume it also comes from fossil fuels.

How much energy is spent in mining, refining fossil fuels, transporting it and distributing to gas stations? Crunch these numbers before starting to compare it to electric grid.

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