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Resources to build them, for one.


Each car will likely get used less under him, and then eventually sold/gifted to others at a discounted rate. Those cars will most likely get used through their useful lifespan without any more or less effect on the world than they would have otherwise.


> Each car will likely get used less under him

It will for sure be used much more than if it didn't exist


they were likely paid for?


yes, most vehicles are, that doesn’t eliminate the environmental impact.


TLDR: If he buys a car a year, and drives the same number of miles as the average American, his total emissions are probably equal to someone who drives 28k miles a year.

Carbon emissions for a Model 3 vs a Toyota Corolla even out after 13'500 miles according to Argonne National Laboratory [1], which is slightly less than the average an American drives per year (14'263 miles [2]). Assuming that he drives as much as the average driver, his cars generate as much Co2 as a Model 3 (definitely not true for the Cybertruck, but he probably has low-build-emission ICE cars in the other 8 to lower the average), and he buys a car a year, he has roughly the equivalent emissions of someone who drives twice the average number of miles each year. For reference, a long haul driver (of which there are 300k-500k in the US [3]) drives 100-110k miles [4] a year (7-8x the average).

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/when-d...

[2] https://www.thezebra.com/resources/driving/average-miles-dri....

[3] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/05/25/999784202/is-t....

[4] https://www.caltrux.org/driver-faqs/#:~:text=Begin%20a%20Car....


Truck drivers are doing a commercial activity where it is reasonable to largely attribute the emissions to the customer.


Yes, those Americans driving on average 77 miles a day. Every day.




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