As with all rules of thumb, they don’t tell the whole story. Using fossil fuel usage as the sole stand in for energy usage, in an age when fossil fuel usage is being replaced by a different source… Is dumb.
Hydraulics already work off electricity. We already have electric cargo ships. Electric planes and semi trucks already exist. The percentage of machines that absolutely require fossil fuels at this point is shrinking rapidly.
Using an outdated metric continues to be dumb, regardless of your own limited awareness of the alternatives.
As with all rules of thumb, they don’t tell the whole story. Using fossil fuel usage as the sole stand in for energy usage, in an age when fossil fuel usage is being replaced by a different source… Is dumb.
Dumb is pretending it’s possible to move heavy machinery with a different source
Hydraulics already work off electricity. We already have electric cargo ships. Electric planes and semi trucks already exist. The percentage of machines that absolutely require fossil fuels at this point is shrinking rapidly.
Using an outdated metric continues to be dumb, regardless of your own limited awareness of the alternatives.