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Some european cities have light post chargers. And there exist small parking meter sized chargers. You don't need supercharger wattage when you're charging while working or parking at home.

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Or I can just use gas, and not have to worry about it.

Only if you don't care about climate change.

If you are really serious about reducing your carbon footprint, don't have children or pets.

Not having children or pets won't really change our carbon emissions in the next ten to fifteen years, which is the time frame that matters if we want to stay below 2°. And unless you want to reduce the human population to zero, it's not a sustainable path to net zero emissions.

I care about climate change but electric cars are too expensive.

The poor always suffer. Rich people will buy endless junk but since they can afford a tesla they think they're doing something

But then you are driving a gas car. It's smelly and unresponsive.

It makes sense if you are really into gas cars or an eletric car doesn't work for you, but the charging problem for people living in apartments will be fixed eventually. It's already fixed in a few cities.

People have been driving gas cars for years. We're doing just fine.

Sorry we can't afford luxury electric cars like the rich SV people on here

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