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The world's 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars (theconversation.com)
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[โ€“] juliebean@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

one thing they don't mention in this article, is that bikes also cause essentially no wear and tear on road surfaces compared to cars and trucks, and re-paving is a pretty oil intensive and expensive process. the long term oil savings of reducing car usage in favor of bikes should therefore be even greater than their numbers suggest.

[โ€“] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They also just need less street to begin with because they take up less space. Considering that it's the 'need' to shoehorn in wide roads and parking lots that makes places car-dependent in the first place, the positive impact of more people switching to bikes is even greater than "even greater!"