Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible

yesman@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well can’t we just ban Shell from selling oil, and then get in our F150s to drive to the airport?

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  • Kanda@reddthat.com ⁨46⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Gotta use at least a 350 to transport one person to the airport

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  • gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i assume F150 is an electric vehicle. electricity doesn’t come from nowhere. where does the energy come from?

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    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      F150 is a huge American ute that burns tons of gasoline to get around.

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• Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Honestly, I believe the main roadblock is the idea that change will need to happen at all. The sad truth is that most people are fine with contributing to climate change so long as they can keep doing what they’re accustomed to doing.

  The only way I can see for meaningful climate action to happen is to get people on board with regulation polluters while allowing them to be ignorant to the fact that lifestyle changes will have to follow, and then when they’re forced to adapt, they will. People are much better at changing when they can’t afford not to than when they have the option to just keep on doing what they always have.

  People are also a lot more likely to make sacrifices to keep up momentum after a win like regulating polluters; few people are going to change first when they can see a company like Shell - polluting more every day than they have in their entire lives - going unchecked. A change has to happen to give them hope that the climate can even be saved before they try to make changes themselves to save it.

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• PoopingCough@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m cool with that. I also don’t think it would necessarily be huge in terms of inconvenience for the average person because alternatives would pop up before long. For example, if air travel became prohibitively expensive we might actually see an expanse of passenger rail for domestic travel. It’s ridiculous that it’s still cheaper/more convenient to take a 45 min flight (plus the time the whole airport experience takes) vs a couple hours (or less with high speed rail) train ride. Certain plastics might also become too expensive so we might see the return to more sustainable packaging. A lot of the oil and byproduct consumption from the average person comes down to lack of choice ratger than people choosing products made from oil ober alternatives.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It would be a massive inconvenience, but it’ll still be worth it. High speed rail takes many years to build. People hate lifestyle changes. Hell, people will be unhappy at the changes to food packaging. Everything will become more expensive and the economy will contract.

    If we go in promising it’ll be easy people will get mad and balk when it gets hard. If we go in explaining how it’ll suck, but that we’ve got a plan to fix the problems and it’ll be worth it then we can succeed

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No, we are past that point. A gradual reduction in CO2 levels is not enough any more. If you want to save billions of lives we need to cut CO2 production hard and right now. Since that is never going to happen you happy go lucky scenario becomes impossible. In any realistic climate scenario humanity is already fucked, it’s only matter of how much exactly.

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• whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nothing changes until the price of an electric car is less than the cost of a gas one when it comes to the vehicle cost.

  A Hyundai Sonata is 35k CAD

  A Hyundai IONIQ 6 is 55k CAD

  Miss me with that bullshit.

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  • CommieKhinkali@lemmygrad.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Isnt byd and other chinese ves a lot cheaper compared to the brand new normal cars? No wonder china has majority ev owners and drivers. It can be done, gas cars can be replaced, but the main problem with the oil company’s is that they have huge influence in the government and hmthey have huge power, boyboy has a wonderful video about this topic. They destroy nature, they only care about profits, they lobby against any ev or even hydrogen cars, they are the main reason why climate change is only accelerating in the west. At this point we as humans cant do anything legally to change this.

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  • wax@feddit.nu ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hyundai Sonata is a budget sedan. Ionic is their top of the line electric. Perhaps look at Hyundai Inster or Hyundai Kona or something.

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  • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is why buying new cars is dumb,

    A used Hyundai sonata 2024 is ~20k USD A used Hyundai ioniq 6 2024 is ~24k USD

    Yeah it may be more upfront, but most people finance any way and your monthly payment will be offset buy your fuel savings.

    There’s enough of a stock of used EVs, quite often with low mileage, at this point that cost is becoming less of an issue for people then the perceived lack of convenience. That and dealerships not promoting them because they get less maintenance fees and there lower margin then a giant SUV or pickup.

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    • freebee@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      most people at this point chosing fuel over electric, the main motivation is best case “habit” or worst case political statement, it has very little to do with money or the technical limitations of the vehicles anymore. They just don’t like change, they’re scared of it. They have driven a fuel car all their lives and they will continue their habits as long as they are allowed to. The range on EV’s is crazy now. For christ’s sake, an electric bicycle has a reach of 100km! How far out away from what they need do the average 90% of people live… less than a few kilometers.

      It’s really not that hard to put a price on societal collapse and the end of humanity: the money it costs to try to mitigate that is infinite and every decision every person makes right now should be made in that light of exponentially higher costs later if bad choices which now seem slightly less expensive are made now…

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    • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah. If you’re paying for the car outright, your free cash every month will be higher, which can go back into savings. If you’re financing the car, your monthly expenses will quite possibly be the same or lower, because you pay for gas every month, too.

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    • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I just looked in Canada

      2024 sonata. 28k

      2024 IONIQ 6. 39k

      I’m sorry I’m not paying over 10k more for an electric car that’s absolutely insane.

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      • fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Not equivalent, the IONIQ is luxury

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  • kamee@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I bought my fully loaded ioniq 5 for 31K euros Used…

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  • fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Slate is 25k

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  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Now factor in lifetime costs of repairs and gas/electricity!

    BTW I have no idea which one is which of your two cars 😅

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• fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  K that’s fine

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• fizzle@quokk.au ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, but regulating pollutors requires a populace that won’t accept anything less. Instead people are placated by paper straws.

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