I listed you the countries…

Partially funded by Americans and to a lesser degree Russians, primarily funded by Europeans

Edit: to clarify, I don’t believe Russia has less of an intent on controlling European politics than the USA does, it’s just that the USA has a lot more power, money and relations with Europe, so it naturally has a lot more ways to influence our policy. As an example, Europe will (righfully) be very angry at Russia when it starts a war with Ukraine, but will join the USA in a war in Iraq.

As a Spaniard (country which joined the European Community rather late), I can definitely confirm that it was pretty much explicit that joining NATO was a prerequisite to be accepted in the EU. The EU was born out of the Marshall Plan and of NATO.

Military intervention in Libya. Belligerent NATO states: Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States. Most of those are EU countries.

NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Aviation: French, Italian, UK, Belgian, Danish, Dutch, Portuguese, Norwegian, Spanish, German

I’m not arguing that Europe doesn’t have the potential for being a force of good, I’m arguing that as of now, it’s simply not. The EU was formed not with peace and stability in mind, but with neoliberalism and anticommunism, otherwise it would have never adhered to NATO and participated in all its military campaigns, both informally (Afghanistan) and formally (Libya and Yugoslavia). If we want to praise a country/region for its peace in the past century, we should praise post-Vietnam-war China.

Excellent analysis, thanks too for sharing your numbers, quite interesting seeing how much you can save with proper usage of the vehicle!!

Nah, you’re just eurocentric and believe the myth of the European garden vs the world jungle, whose roots are white supremacy. Not everyone who disagrees with you is a bot, I’m not calling you an Interpol agent.

Post world war 2 , right up until now was the longest period of peace on the continent

Damn, you should totally tell the million Algerians murdered by France leading up to 1962 that Europe was peaceful, maybe nothing would have happened. You should also tell Iraqis about how we totally didn’t join the invasion of their country on this very century, Yugoslav people how Europe didn’t bomb them, and Libyans that Europe didn’t bomb them either

Affordable! Assuming that’s 23 days a month, that would amount to some $70

My diesel is prominently used in inter-town roads, not in towns themselves, where such pollutants like nitrous oxides affect a much less significant amount of humans. Also, it cost me 2000€ + 1500€ in repairs.

This article is less important for individual consumers (whose fuel usage varies wildly depending on their needs and their routines) but it’s extremely important for policy: PHEVs have a very similar climate change result on average than my 2006 diesel car.

Not a badge of honor, I’ve participated in climate research in my career, I’m fully aware of the pollution issues of Diesel cars regarding particulate matter and nitrous oxides. What do I do about it: I don’t drive it in cities. I only use my car for trips that take me between towns that have no solid public transit communication (which is unfortunately the case for many towns near Madrid among each other). The nitrous oxide impact is mostly local and, if you look at NO2 pollution maps, the problem is pretty contained within cities, so driving it far from urban centres has a lot less of an impact. As for climate change effect, it has a similar effect to the average contemporary hybrid cars per the study, and the fact that I bought it used means I’m not stimulating the production of new cars, which produces a ton of emissions, instead I’m spending my money locally fixing the car, which is arguably more sustainable than buying new ones with similar fuel consumption.

Criticizing European colonialist roots makes me an asset? Welp, guess I should instead join the massive far-right crowds in Spain chanting that Muslims should be expelled and that Spain brought culture and technology to its colonies in America

Fascism is not even Russian funded or American spread, Europe is perfectly capable of growing its own fascism as we saw 100 years ago, sadly we’re going down the same road.

Averages don’t only work if data falls under a normal distribution. I can have two very non-Gaussian distributions for fuel usage of two vehicle types but one of them has much lower fuel consumption than the other, I can vouch for the lower one using the average alone.

People in this comment section are obtuse as fuck, I don’t know if willingly or not.

Thanks for posting the study, they’re completely missing the point, and it was an enlightening revelation to me

The study is framed perfectly as it has exposed this issue. Now we can make political decisions accordingly, to either stop subsidizing useless PHEVs or to enforce their correct usage through a mixture of incentives, infrastructure and punitive measures.

Just curious, did you notice anything in your electric bill?

Statistics exist, taking a sample of thousands of PHEV drivers and examining fuel consumption is exactly what we can do to quantify fuel usage. And the reality is that, on average, they use up more fuel than my 2006 diesel I got for 2000€. For the vast majority of people, PHEV are just a scam

My 2006 diesel swallows 5.1L/100km, and it fits 7 people inside. New cars are mastodontic for no fucking reason