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Originally Posted by ERTW
You lost me at "mitigate climate change". We're near a minimum in this latest interglacial period...meaning 3* cooler than the peak. Even the most extreme doomsday "prediction" is 2.5* warmer than today in the next century. CO2 is 0.04% of the atmosphere, humans actually produce a small fraction of total global CO2, and cars/commercial/refineries produce a small fraction of that. The tail doesn't wag the dog.
Buying a six figure car to "save gas" and "fight climate change" sounds like propaganda. I agree that cars aren't evolving nearly quickly enough, but put some blame on the EPA and NHTSA for legislating cars into the porkers they are now. A remake of the 1994 Civic DX with a small turbo diesel would get better-than-hybrid economy, and be affordable-but it's illegal.
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Human combustion of fossil fuel, each year, is equivalent to a forest fire covering the entire surface of Earth, oceans, deserts, high mountains, etc., included, times 1.75, each year. That's the 'arithmetic' of global warming.