re: "Literally Impossible": Trucking Companies Brace For California's 2024 Electric Mandate

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There's no such thing as a zero emissions vehicle. The emissions might be less, but they still exist, just transferred to another phase of the vehicle creation/operation.

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I don't know why some people outright refuse to believe/can't understand this.

All value has energy. Energy can be neither created nor destroyed. You aren't becoming free of emissions. Ever.

Even if in 2150 all vehicles are electric, it is because we frontloaded the emissions to create the infrastructure to be electric. The emissions still happened in proportion to the future vehicle usage.

The oil in the ground isn't a free resource. It's the result of suffering of an entire apex species.

Nothing is free. Anything that exists is the result of some transfer of energy. The value we put it on is subjective, but the tangible result will always have a balance.