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Where will all the electric cars be charged? (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Battery powered cars are likely to do the same thing. We are at the point were we are realizing that this won't scale up.

This is a very Western (US especially) argument. All across major cities in the East, China specifically you're already seeing major cities becoming increasingly electrified far far beyond what is both being done in the US currently and what is capable of being done by the US in the next 10 years.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then China is just repeating Brazil. Brazil was one of the few countries that could pull off biofuels in a real way. But it was a unique situation, and it doesn’t work elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that biofuel costs ballooned some years ago and I don't know a single person that still uses it since you get more km with regular gas, biofuels had a sweet magic price for some time but it has gone way up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

That's true of ethanol, but not biodiesel. High cost is a consequence of insufficient supply. Basically, it was how the market stopped further biofuel growth.