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  They're not intended to save the planet they're just intended to give the power structure a way to shut your car off.
  A literal prison is being constructed around us using our own infrastructure. Scientists and engineers don't realize they're being herded to develop the intended advancements
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  I feel like you have part of an idea, but it isn't fully formed. >
  
  I charge my car from my solar system and drive back and forth to work every day. Don’t pay for gas, don’t pay for electricity. Save the planet? Save me money! >
  
  I love that, you're living it! >
  
  Electric cars don't save the planet, they reduce the use of petrol/diesel for that one person. Their construction and disposal aren't done in environmentally friendly ways. >
  
  The disposal supposedly is worse for the environment than what it saves over it's lifetime >
  
  Why would you dispose of them? Current generation EVs are quite recyclable. Even current battery recycling tech is highly efficient and yields 100% recovery of the mineral components. >
  
  And also produces incredible amounts of pollution. And when considering how most electricity is already worse for the environment than gas and that when transferred to electricity it loses efficiency, the technology isn't there yet. >
  
  Electric cars aren't here to save the planet, they're here to save the car companies. >
  
  This is something car enthusiasts and climate activists can both agree on >
  
  Cars are pollution. They contaminate our cities simply by existing. Electric cars just make people feel better about themselves. >
  
  Also the manufacturing of cars is way more harmful than the cars themselves. >
  
  But good public transport and more sensible zoning laws is socialism. >
  
  Of course, I’m just saying that literally every “green” consumer grade car is developed in some massively non-green ways. For example, Toyota cars have some of the best emissions but Toyota is I believe the biggest source of emissions in all of auto manufacturing. 
  A lot can be said about the materials used in electric cars too. How they are mined, transported, refined for use, etc. >
  
  Electric cars are better than gas cars, but still aren’t sustainable.  Building and using the car uses a ton of resources.   But we need cars for segregated neighborhoods (like single family suburbs), and we need people to buy cars to keep the auto industry employed.  Walkable neighborhoods with mass transit are sustainable, but most Americans want to stay segregated by wealth and class. >
  
  Electric cars cause more lifetime pollution