China is building more coal plants and lying to you.
Lying to me? Don't think so as they don't talk to me. Yes, they are building some coal plants, but also installing solar and other renewable energy production, building a lot of EVs (both for domestic use and export), etc. I imagine if we had been something closer to a third world nation and was still in the process of modernizing, just getting our grid built up, we'd be building coal plants, too -- not just keeping some online while we get cleaner plants online.
No kidding.
You know how we secure peace? Lots of weapons of war.
And they don't run on hopes and dreams.
Never claimed they did. At the same time, I think you'll find I support Ukraine and get frustrated at Republicans who keep blocking sending them weapons, despite a majority of Republicans supporting Ukraine.
Don't forget commercial flights.
Combined....those types of transportation are bigger emitters of CO2 than all but the 5 or 6th biggest nations.
What, you think we should ban commercial flights (both passenger and cargo)? I never claimed to support such things. At the same time, it is part of the reason we should do things like EVs, to lower the "cost" of the transportation modes that aren't easily made more "green."
The point is to do what we can to lower pollution, to include carbon emissions, while not destroying society. Yes, not everything can be fixed yet but that shouldn't stop us from doing what we can do.
Trains aren't traveling that far in Europe.
They aren't? While you can argue that there aren't a lot of long distance trains (over 1000 miles), there aren't really many in the US, either. Of course, in Europe some of that is political, as countries give priority to their own trains rather than those from other nations. At the same time, there are plenty of international trains in Europe (I can think of maybe one in the US, between New York and Toronto).
As for Europe, it makes a certain amount of sense that there are few cross-continent trains, as most people aren't traveling more than a day on the train -- typically the trips they need to take are much shorter. They do have longer trips for vacationers, such as trains that go directly between major European cities and ski resorts, beaches, etc. that are seasonal.
You don't really understand the scope of this problem. You don't understand that we require food delivered from across the nation, and globe, and it won't happen by electric train or sailboat. Consider how many trains have been in disasters just in this administration and now consider starvation as a result.
You claim to know what I know and understand? You appear to be clueless -- at least on that topic. I didn't say we should change 18-wheelers that are a major part of our shipping network to be electric, or that we need to electrify ships. As for trains, I'm not seeing how "train disasters" are any worse under this administration than under Trump. Maybe I'm missing something but there have been 2 "train disasters" under Biden and there were three under Trump; those accidents included 5 dead and 281 injured under Trump, 4 dead and 150 injured under Biden.
I also seem to recall the
Biden administration pushing for more safeguards to improve train safety, safeguards that Congress has blocked. Though I fail to see how electrifying our train lines would have anything but a positive effect on train safety.
This doesn't even touch on plastics....which are used in....oh yeah, everything. Nearly every single consumer product uses plastics. Do you know how plastics are made?
I'm not sure what your point is here, at least how it has anything to do with what I've ever stated. Encouraging EVs over ICE cars does not stop all oil production, particularly since I agreed that long-haul trucks and boats, at least under current technology, need to keep using gasoline/oil. Last I knew, no one is burning plastic to fuel any type of vehicle, despite plastics being made from oil.
I do think something like hydrogen might be a good replacement for boat fuel -- the "waste" left over after the production of power could be safely dropped into the sea. But that will require better ways to isolate hydrogen before it is practical. And, possibly, if we do a good enough development of hydrogen, perhaps someday EVs will be hydrogen powered (with much smaller batteries).
I can tell you exactly when we'll stop burning/refining petrochemicals.
When they run out.
Hopefully not, I would hope that we find better solutions for more renewable types of energy before we run out of petroleum. And while I don't think plastic production should ever run us out of petroleum, particularly as we hopefully recycle more plastic, there are enough concerns about micro-plastics and other plastic byproducts that it would be good to find greener versions of plastics. But that is for the future, I don't expect to be around when that happens.
