Justin Ohms
1 min readDec 27, 2023

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Charging sites the size of major sports stadiums every 200 or so miles, standing up terawatts of new renewable solar and wind power and you still think this is actually just a matter of “sufficient investment”. Yeah and where is all that land going to come from. The easy coast corridor isn’t exactly empty. Hey let’s just bulldoze some neighborhoods. It worked when we built the interstates in the first place. There were no harmful side effects, no body was hurt by that.

It’s laughable because this kind of delusion is what’s going to keep us from actually reducing co2 output. Everyone is putting the cart before the horse. Stop worrying about electrifying every dam moving vehicle and just start by switching the existing electric grid off of fossils fuels. Thats step 1 and if you skip it you’re really just moving the problem and patting yourself on the back. It is the paramount of idiocy to spend infrastructure dollars intended to reduce co2 emissions on projects that will only shift the co2 emission source. If you really want to reduce the co2 emissions of long distance shipping stop listening to Elon’s electric truck BS, recognize his clear conflict of interest. Start focusing on the grid and on long and intermediate distance electrified rail.

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