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Gas engines may disappear by 2040. In fact countries like France are already banning the sales of petrol and diesel cars by 2040.
All this will limit global warming, though it will not eliminate it, and the damage done is largely irreversible.
Side benefits: much less pollution and millions of people not dying because of air pollution.
Modern gas engines are negligible pollution-wise
Do like I did when the Irmageddon was barreling down on Hollywood Florida.
Nothing, I just sat my ass right here and laughed at all the idiots running out and buying up all of Publix groceries.
They look like they did 10 years ago. Maybe they should shape the new ones like big tits or something to let people know you have the new ones.
But the exact opposite is true: It is easy and simple. We just need to continue what we are doing now: i.e. redirect investments from fossil fuels toward renewables.
There is virtually no economic cost. Though the actors may be different.
Consider a few facts:
There are 2 uses of energy we need to address: the electric grid and transportations.
- On the grid side, things are already well on their way: sun and wind power are now cheap and getting cheaper. As a result the emissions of countries like China are flattening. (China announced a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions). Batteries will follow. Their cost is already falling. Huge batteries will be used to store wind and sun power. So we will be able to get to 0 emissions.
- on the transportation side, batteries are the key component and they are getting cheaper, so electric cars are very likely to become much cheaper, and since they are simpler, they will quickly become much cheaper to operate and maintain than car with gas engines. Gas engines may disappear by 2040. In fact countries like France are already banning the sales of petrol and diesel cars by 2040.
All this will limit global warming, though it will not eliminate it, and the damage done is largely irreversible.
Side benefits: much less pollution and millions of people not dying because of air pollution.