MC3OZ
Active Member
The job loss comes more from gasoline production line+OEM parts from reduction in car parts+reduction in maintenance than from electric generation. There are over 100k gas stations in the US in which everyone needs to visit once to twice a week. I have visited a supercharger station twice after 25k miles driven. There are about zero employees at a supercharger station. That's a huge difference amount of work force gone just from that.
All though I feel like having gigantic solar farms + battery storage is way more efficient than coal mining/transportation. Things like that is rarely studied because it hasn't been done on a massive scale.
The myth that FF industries have any kind of future will become increasingly hard to sustain, in fact it will probably look comical in around 5 years time..
There are always small communities when are coal mine or something similar makes a big difference and people vote with their self interest.
But the wider community has a different interest and a lot more votes.
But regardless there are no votes in coal jobs when there are no coal jobs.... yes there might still be votes in people wanting their old job back, but sooner or later the majority will accept reality.