A Misinformed Opinion on Electric Transportation

The reader who submitted the mere here writes:  If you want EVs just do it. If you want to drive gas/diesel vehicles do it as well. Let’s not try to make everyone conform to our way of life. If electric or fossil fuels fail they will. The same goes for Vegans eat plants if you please. Just don’t expect everyone to do as you do. Our meager environmental changes to save the atmosphere is equal to shooting spit wads at a battleship.

A few comments.

You apparently don’t have any training in this subject.  Our scientists are clear in explaining to us that decarbonizing our energy and transportation sectors is an absolute requirement if we expect to have an organized human civilization here 50 years down the road.

Diesel generators account for close to 0% of our grid-mix.

Uranium (nuclear) has virtually no carbon content.

Solar, wind, and nuclear are in the process of displacing coal, by far the dirtiest of our fuels. There is nothing “meager” whatsoever about these efforts.

It would a good thing if our population would follow what our scientists are begging us to do re: our behavior (driving, eating, etc.)  Obviously, there are many people who won’t, and there is very little that can be done about this.  More than half of Americans voted for Donald Trump and his distinctly anti-science platform.  This is an uphill battle, to be sure.