The world's 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars

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The world's 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
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I'm a cyclist myself and a few members of my family went out and bought ebikes before they would even go on casual kid friendly rides with me on their traditional bikes. While I appreciate the ebike making people more confident biking I feel like the people I know with ebikes could have literally just used a traditional bike and in a month they wouldn't find it hard.

People with disabilities would benefit. We get it. You don’t approve of them having something that could possibly benefit them.

I didn't mention people with disabilities. I'm very pro people with disabilities buying and using ebikes. What I am attempting to get across is that a lot of people would do great with trying to cycle before dropping big money on an ebike.