This! In always forget the exact number, but you're right: an amount of the largest cargo ships that's countable on your fingers and toes at most (6? 16? Less than 20, in any case) produce as much pollution as every single car in the world. And what are we doing? Regulating cars in rich countries. We must all buy a BEV now. Our old car will get sold to Africa or wherever, where they somehow magically stop polluting, one presumes.
Yet every time I point this out, this little fact gets ignored. Or worse, someone will pipe up with some reason why it's not possible to convert those ships to something cleaner. Yet, I ask you: what seems easier? Converting every single car on the entire planet to BEV, installing sufficient chargers to keep them all topped up, and beefing up the infrastructure (power grid) to handle the extra load, or... Converting 20 large cargo ships?
Don't get me wrong. I would love for a future where a BEV or similar zero-emissions vehicle would be practical. There is something to be said for reducing pollution in urban areas. We'd all love cleaner air. But right now they're too expensive compared to ICE cars (which often are already overpriced themselves), the range isn't there, charging takes too long, electricity prices are being kept artificially high because otherwise green energy production wouldn't be profitable, ... These cars have the cards stacked against them. They can't win on merit alone, which is why governments need to push adoption. Because very few people woke up this morning thinking "gee, if only there was a way I could spend more on personal transportation to get a worse experience than In had before!".
