How do you argue that on FB? IMHO, the best choice is don’t. Just ignore and move on. The other person isn’t interested in enlightenment or accuracy. They’re just thrilled with the awesome job they’ve done destroying the argument of those who know better, although they really didn’t do that. I their eyes, though, they did. You’re starting from a losing position and only going backwards when you try to discuss it rationally with facts and evidence. They’re not interested in those.
Agreed, I mean, if you are resolved to argue on FB, just pull batshit lunatic nonsequiturs out of your ass, and keep changing the subject and pushing the discussion into personal attack, politics, religion, moral outrage etc. This is the defacto ruleset for debate in that arena - you don’t want to break the rules do you?
After the meme-off, He was polite and genuinely asking me things. Plus, it’s in public, and having answers to these questions makes our side look good.
I don’t waist time with people I can see aren’t arguing in good faith.
The key here is the other person is only arguing from faith: faith that their position is right. Your evidence does not overpower that. Faith is a very strong thing.
How do you know? Not all of them are unreachable.
Operating as though every person who holds a different position from yours is automatically entrenched and intransigent is certainly the easier way of going about things but it’s the wrong way. When it comes to stuff like transitioning away from fossil fuels one has to consider that there’s been a concentrated propaganda campaign from the extractive industries to dissuade people from even thinking about alternatives–and it’s a well funded, well orchestrated and very concentrated campaign indeed. A lot of people WANT to believe that electric cars are indeed feasible and better for the environment but they have a lot of messaging to the contrary to overcome. Giving them facts and numbers to counteract the emotional messaging they get is a great way to start people’s minds on the path to accepting a new way of doing things. It’s a process, and every little bit of encouragement helps.
Actually this is pretty simple, companies like Ford & GM along with Amazon wouldn’t be committing such large amounts of money to electric vehicles if it wasn’t going to be profitable and the way of the future. The writing is already on the wall. the gas/diesel powered engines are on the way out and electric is on the way in.
If you look at the total process, both gasoline and electric vehicles have a lot of inefficiencies, but in both cases, by far the dominant one is the step where you burn something to create heat, then use that to drive some sort of engine (either the turbine in a fossil-fuel plant, or the internal combustion engine in your car). Since that’s where most of the inefficiency is, that’s where there’s the most room for gains, and power plant turbines are much less inefficient than car engines.