I don’t really understand articles like the below. (There are many.) Google generated very little cashflow in 2001. The relevant questions are presumably around what the equilibrium can, should, and will look like in 40 years.https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2018/05/15/are-electric-cars-worse-for-the-environment-000660 …
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Almost by definition, you can’t draw meaningful conclusions about nascent technologies or industries with present-state analyses.
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That's true, but, unfortunately, you can draw a whole lot of pageviews with present-state analyses. A lot of contemporary problems in journalism and "journalism" have their root cause in the race for clicks.
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That's no doubt part of it but can't (I think?) explain things like this paper: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20150897 …. That's not to say the efficiency of electric vehicles today is irrelevant. (I mean, we need to know what to optimize.) But the focus on the point-in-time comparison is odd.
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