Robert Roth
1 min readNov 19, 2023

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Buying what you can, what you want not what you need.

Ok that is an extremely heavy lift to shift the consumption mind set to being ok with what you need.

Maybe Buddha’s philosophy could be taught in school. Not sure what would work….

How does your accounting for pollution relative to EV production help. EV will do less damage to the environment as the technology continuously improves. The concentrated economic power of oil is dangerous, green energy is far more diverse, safer. Take the oil profits from Russian and Middle East Terrorists.

By the way an EV with 600 mile range is a waste. 300 miles covers 100% of the need for 90% of folks. Fast charge is now 250 miles in 10 minutes. So a 400 mile trip requires one 10 minute stop.

The responsible move is to educate consumers to cap their spending on what they need not what they think they need. That is a big task.

Climate change stories might help.

103 degrees F in Key West waters. A few weeks later a cat 3 hurricane jumps to cat 5 in 10 hours in Mexico. Now that’s scary. But bet ya most folks forgot about the implications next day.

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Robert Roth
Robert Roth

Written by Robert Roth

Retired Intel Electrical Engineer, 70's US Navy Officer Nuclear Power Program, Graduate studies in Business UC Berkeley, BSEE U of Fla.

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