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boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

The world's 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars

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The world's 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars

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boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.
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    I need to kill an elephant. What should I drive?

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      Your ancestors hunted the mammoth on foot with a rock tied to a stick. Use that.

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        Yeah but they’re all dead, what does that say about their tactics?

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          I mean, they hunted mammoths to extinction so, pretty fucking effective lol

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          I mean, we’re here, which means someone must have killed a mammoth.

          But really they didn’t hunt them with rocks on sticks. They chased them toward a cliff with their friends waiting at the bottom to dispatch any that survived the fall. This is why there’s no more mammoths.

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            We didn’t just kill a mammoth, we killed all the mammoths.

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              Not true, a bunch survived until a few thousand years ago up north.

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                I refer you to my previous statement.

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            Ah, the Tremors method.

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          Tge mammoths are all dead too so they were effective.

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          They weren’t very good at living for eternity? And really, who would want to?

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      deleted by creator

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      A Sherman?

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