United States | News & Politics

7228 readers

327 users here now

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

pangyuehung@lemmy.ml

yogthos@lemmy.ml

375

President Biden announces a series of tariffs on green energy products from China. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

206 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 90 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Really important for world emissions for the US specifically to transition to EVs too, considering it has the highest per capita road emissions in the world.

[–] gramathy@lemmy.ml 52 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Most of that is because we truck everything and trains only get used for extreme bulk like coal

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 41 points 6 months ago

We can thank the US oil and auto industries (the same ones dictating these green energy tariffs to their political puppets), for that too.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

The big pickup trucks and large SUVs dont help either.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Don't forget overloading them with hazardous materials, only to eventually inevitably crash and cause another social, economic, and climate disaster!

[–] TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Interestingly, China and India, who were told are massive polluters, aren’t even on that list.

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That graphic is limited to a comparison of emissions from use of roads only.

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago

Of course, not roads only, the USA is still terrible and China and India are still not on the list.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/270508/co2-emissions-per-capita-by-country/

[–] Tyfud@lemmy.world -4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Edit, guess I was wrong

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 months ago

Most east Asian countries are fairly low down on the list. They have excellent public transport, the world's best high-speed rail networks, and a significant number of road vehicles are already electric.

[–] anguo@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 months ago

China has a lot of capita. Most of them dont have cars.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago

China is mostly building rail to solve its transportation issues, so this is completely unsurprising.

[–] carl_marks_1312@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Cope lol

EVs are expected to reach 45% marketshare in 2024 in CN. Also I guess you haven't seen their high speed rail network expand over the last decade (pressuring their car market in general). Then you have a lot of capita. So yes the numbers make sense.