Those people who think they are special because they own Tesla products.
These are likely the refugees from the word of the Prius where their "shit doesn't stink" mentality reduced Prius ownership to one of a bloated self worth that was used to justify them being better than you at being green.
Tesla owners raise the bar of green superiority to a new level since these fools pay double or triple the cost of the average vehicle and then claim "my trip only cost me $10" to cross the country.
Well, after watching several youtube videos by the self-important greenies, I wish to take your lame asses on here and to destroy the notion you are GREEN AT ALL.
Owning a vehicle means you own the pollution that it took to harvest the materials to produce that vehicle and then to process those materials into making the actual pieces of the vehicle.
And this is where Tesla owners carry a huge burden - far larger than any gasoline vehicle owner - of pollution and harm to the environment.
Electric vehicles (and to the hybrid ones as well) necessarily OWN the pollution for all rare earth metals that are mined from the ground. And unlike the metals used to make a gasoline engine, rare earth metals in electric motors are by virtue of their friggin name "rare" - that means it takes a lot of mining materials to get one unit of a rare earth metal - thousands of times more rock and debris to obtain rare earth metals than to get iron or even aluminum. That means more disturbance to the environment directly - and then the energy used to harvest the rock which is often diesel fuel (with its dirty pollution - and even if it were gasoline powering the harvesting equipment, there is still all the dirt from "fossil fuels").
So once you get the rock out of the ground you have to extract the metals. In iron or aluminum, the process is very dirty; with rare earth metals which are almost always found only in China, the pollution is staggering to extract the rare metals - and the extraction of the metals also uses more fossil fuels - and in China with rare earth metals, that means COAL! In iron or aluminum in advanced countries with pollution controls, there is once again hundreds of times less pollution to extract iron and aluminum than there is with extracting rare earth metals. We also have to remember that the tons of rock extracted require huge open sore mines that cause water pollution and slag; melting these rocks produces further air pollution, and the tailings left over are dumped and cause pollution - and since this is often done in China, there are few, if any, pollution controls on the debris left after extracting rare earth metals. Civilized Western nations have controls on the iron and aluminum extraction so the difference is huge between the "superior green Tesla components" and the "dirty conventional gasoline ones".
If you can sense something here, it is that a normal gasoline powered vehicle is already hundreds or thousands of times less harmful in production than a Tesla, a Prius, or any electric or hybrid powered vehicle.
Tesla snobs would like to claim that there is less material used to produce their vehicles, but that is not true. These vehicles still use steel, iron or aluminum, so you have to remove any similar components from a gasoline powered vehicle that is also used in a Tesla.
What remains is the environmental damage in the comparison of fuel delivery systems - the engine and related powertrain components compared to the Tesla systems. Tesla will win here because there are fewer moving parts to make for them; but they lose when you factor in the environmental degradation that was undertaken to produce the electric motors and other electric specific components. In one ton of iron ore being extracted yields thousands of times more iron than one ton of rare earth metal being mined. You could find grams of rare earth metals in a ton of rock being harvested in comparison of hundreds of pounds of iron ore being harvest in the same ton measurement of rock.
So we've discussed the harvest of rock, the meltdown of that rock to extract the metal in question, and the resulting cost of the material extracted in pollution and direct costs thereof for fuel and environmental destruction with tailings and direct mining debris pollution (ground water or slag).
What remains is the comparison between the actual cost of a Tesla versus conventional products. The straw man created by Tesla owners is that they intentionally seek to compare their car with an overpriced European model because Tesla owners equate "sticker price" with equal products. This argument is bogus and laughable. A $35k Tesla (if you can buy one) is not comparable to a $35k BMW in any way - the cheapest Tesla is stripped - even if it has lots of technology, it is simply the equivalent of a Ford Pinto with a fancy stereo. That does not make it comparable to a BMW.
The Tesla Model 3 is often compared to a BMW 3 series (it has a 3 in it!) - but really, the Tesla is a compact car that is more comparable to a Toyoduh Corolla or a Ford Focus. I know this insults Tesla owners who feel all the pride that comes with paying $35k for a vehicle, but truthfully, the Tesla 3 competes with a $25K Ford Focus - and any savings that the Tesla owner claims from using its vehicle doesn't even begin until the Focus owner has spent $10k in fuel. The Focus owner pays less in interest and personal property taxes for the loan and ownership and those factors need to be considered as well - that allows the Focus owner to purchase more fuel until such time that the acquisition and ownership costs equal just the "drive it out the door" price of the Tesla.
We also have to consider that insuring a Tesla is one of the biggest cost differences - you get soaked on insurance for a Tesla over that fully loaded $25k Ford Focus - repair costs on a Tesla are astronomical and reflect a huge expense that Tesla owners must incur (and never report in their reviews).
Uppity Tesla owners crowing about their $10 charge to cross the country are dishonest when they also mooched off their relatives or friends for "free charges". But the fact remains that before that snotty Tesla owner gets to drive one mile, the Ford Focus owner (and it is a fully loaded Focus) has had a chance to use his/her $10k (plus interest, insurance, and tax costs) for tens of thousands of miles. That snotty Tesla owner is sitting there telling you about their car waiting to move while Jethro in his Ford Focus is going to work, running errands, fucking in the backseat, getting road head, and otherwise getting to use his lowly Ford.
It sucks being a Tesla owner when your road head is done stationary in your own driveway!
Tesla owners are then adding to their costs because they feel the need to put stupid ceramic coatings on their paint (I guess because Tesla factory paint jobs are orange peel and thin in quality); Jethro in his Ford uses Turtle wax from Walmart).
And just remember, once the Tesla owner is on the road, once that warranty is gone, they are going to get soaked on replacing parts over the life of the vehicle (ceramic paint coatings don't make the touch screen more durable).
It is thus I am finished rubbing the nose of Tesla owners in their self-esteem excuses for buying a car that is not as green as a petrol vehicle and costs way more to own an operate over the life of the vehicle. I believe the overall cost breakeven point in all acquisition, fuel, interest, and tax factors on top of costs per mile in operation will become equal right about the 200k mile mark (give or take several tens of thousands of miles depending on how you drive or car for that Ford, Jethro).
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