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[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 week ago

I happen to prefer not to always have my location tracked by a cell phone company or my transactions recorded by a credit card issuer. The ability to be anonymous is a vital component of freedom. Plus, you can still pay for things in cash if something has wiped out all local network connectivity. And yes, I have been known to pay for gas in cash—not always, but now and again (and an EV doesn't need gas, anyway, so that question is increasingly irrelevant).

I do not require or expect other people to have the same priorities that I do.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

An EV... So a car that's tracking you? 😂

[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 week ago

Nah, a converted electric milk float. 🤣

[-] villasv@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Right... that's about what I imagine someone fighting against cashless is like. You actually pay for gas in cash and you don't have a smartphone with Internet.

Kind of ironic that you're excited about EVs, though.

[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 week ago

Kind of ironic that you’re excited about EVs, though.

"Excited" isn't really the word. It's more that I acknowledge the inevitable. Even if we ignore the damage done by burning it, the world supply of gasoline is finite, and the extraction and refining process is not only messy, polluting, and making many parts of the world beholden to countries with bad human rights records, but also has chokepoints—a relatively small number of large refineries—that are increasingly at risk as the climate gets worse. Better to get off it before we're forced to do so one way or the other.

[-] villasv@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Fair enough. I am in fact looking forward to a future where e-bikes and other electric micro mobility bring the freedom that the oil & gas industries promised and failed to deliver.

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