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In response to ""give me a billion dollars and i'll end EVs as the Big Oil president" -- (link)" by hollywood big shot

They're bigger fools than I took them for if they do. It could maybe be slowed at this point, but the full transition is happening

Posted by Reagen May 9 '24, 07:40

The world is switching.

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LOFL -- nm - Anti-abortion movement May 9, 08:13 2
- The difference is that car companies aren't going to build a separate line of gas cars just for the US. -- nm - Reagen May 9, 08:24 1
  - We will soon be like 3rd world countries, driving *old* cars!!! -- nm - LFG May 9, 08:29
they also know that. oil is always going to be in use - we're not getting electric tanker and container ships any time soon, airlines are not - colin May 9, 07:56 2
- It goes with this idea that he's trying to be President of the 70s. - Reagen May 9, 08:02
- exactly. (my Fallout -esque analogy below is a bit clumsy) -- nm - Jovian May 9, 08:00
they'll still try and run the Big Tobacco playbook. deny, delay, diversify into non-petro sectors. but we don't have the time for everyone to quit - hollywood big shot May 9, 07:47 1
- There's also the long term view that Alien portrayed that even if we stop using petrochemicals for energy, we'll never be able to quit plastics -- nm - JD May 9, 07:57
Its like Vault-Tec, I'm sure they all understand EV is part of their business model going forward. - Jovian May 9, 07:42

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