It’s doublt moot since an electric bus still needs oil. Even if all electricity was solar, nuclear, hydro electric. Take your pick. Those systems use components made of materials that require... oil. Even if they didn’t, moving parts on the bus, the transmission and axles and more require lubrication. Unless we start slaughtering animalslike whales again for their lubricants- yup. Oil. Even IF we didn’t need oil to lubricate the buses parts and all the other stuff... if we invented tires and belts that didn’t use any oil- and we didn’t use any for interior or other panels.... in all likelihood the individual electronic components that make up the electric bus.... would require oil to make. That ignores that even where and if possible- there are costs and complications in using and maintaining such systems where no petrol products are used.
Sadly, the ecological impact of that would still be rather high. Also, our technology is based around certain principals. One of the most basic is rotation. While it is possible to use bushings or non petroleum lubrivated bearings, they tend to have short service lives and can’t handle precision, high stress, or high RPM loads. In short, our technology isn’t feasible without petroleum, and no replacements exist that wouldn’t cause equal or more harm, and drastic changes in standard of living and advancement. The reality is while we don’t have to be ecologically irresponsible, we do need to acknowledge that to benefit from technology, and to advance to where we can find better solutions, requires some degree of pollution.
"After you ride a greyhound you realize that DYING... not that bad."
"People need to die. Gene pools need to end."
I may have laughed a little too hard at that last part.
I can't say I've experienced anything *quite* like this, but he certainly gets the point across
Hate to be that guy, being in the auto industry and all. The majority of city busses actually run on CNG (compressed natural gas), Hydrogen, or some other combustible alternative fuel source. Now, oil as a lubricant the majority of us use synthetics and high mileage rather than conventional motor oil. And if we all rode the bus instead of driving emissions would decrease immensely. Now if they were getting at the whole petroleum thing which is where gasoline comes from, that’s one thing. Oil as a whole we need to make plastics and other sorts of things.
That comment reminded me of this video.
"People need to die. Gene pools need to end."
I may have laughed a little too hard at that last part.
I can't say I've experienced anything *quite* like this, but he certainly gets the point across