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xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas (xkcd.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that's the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Please tell me how you know that the people you are talking to on Lemmy are all average Americans. Or even Americans.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Irrelevant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's totally relevant. You said "I’ll still do less environmental damage than you" and your reasoning for that is based on what the average American does.

So unless you believe that you're only talking to average Americans, you are using a meaning of the word "you" that literally no one else in the world uses.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

How do you know how much environmental damage...

I do?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Again, your words:

I’ll still do less environmental damage than you

So you sure claim you do. And the evidence you gave was, again, you were talking about the average American. So, again, how do you know that everyone here- that anyone here- is what you describe as an average American?