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1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles (cleantechnica.com)
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[โ€“] jumpinjesus@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah which is always weird. How many of those people weren't just riding normal bikes before vs downsizing from a car. I'm on my 3rd EV and would love to bike if it were an option where I live, but if I went with a bike, I'd just be replacing another EV.

[โ€“] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Assuming you could feasibly bike, it would probably still be environmentally better to use the bike, mostly because it is more energy efficient at moving a single human places because it doesn't have to move a whole car frame, and in most places a fair amount of power is still from fossil fuels, so less would be needed. Also the other benefits of biking.