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Burning Gas Pollutes So Much, Dirty EV Battery Manufacturing Evens Out In About 2 Years
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this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2026
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For sure, we can no longer afford the affects of our current technology and scale on the environment, especially with regard to climate change and where it impacts human health. EVs aren’t a goal in their own right, but as a much cleaner technology that lessens the impact, and we need a variety of pushes and pulls to encourage a faster transition, all of which the current administration is taking away.
While yes we need to build out infrastructure, and yes we would have preferred legacy manufacturers to survive the change, building out supply before there is demand doesn’t always work dry well. Using EV incentives help grow the market, drive demand, especially in the beginning where there is inadequate infrastructure and where manufacturers are not yet able to create comparable prices. It’s another lever to pull, and is important. Hopefully we had them long enough, but growth clearly stalled when they were prematurely ended
And yes, in my part of the US, windfarms killed by trump were important both to lower electricity costs and to clean up our impact.