Picture a lithium mine in Chile. It takes 500,000 gallons of water per ton of lithium extracted, and that's in one of the driest places on Earth. That water's gone, local communities lose their wells, and the dust is toxic. Now, that's just for the battery in one car. I'm not saying gas is clean, but we're swapping one set of problems for another. EVs don't solve pollution, they just move it upstream. And what about the grid? If we all plug in at night, most places still burn coal or gas to meet that demand. So you're driving a car with a heavy footprint, powered by fossils anyway. It's not the clean break people think.
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