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Yeah, ebikes are significantly more economical and ecological. The human body is very inefficient at converting calories into kinetic energy, and producing 1kcal of food has a much worse CO2 output than even burning 1kcal worth of coal. Even if you follow a vegan diet
The human body will burn calories pretty much either way, and if you let your body adjust to daily riding your resting energy use will go down. If you want to be healthy you need exercise either way. Given all that you can consider the energy required to ride a bicycle for a medium distance daily to be virtually free.
No, that's just a lie. The only way you're gonna significantly reduce your BMR from daily bike riding is if you were a fatty and lost weight due to it, but a diet would accomplish the same job. If an untrained person starts commuting daily with their bike the exact opposite will happen, they will grow more muscles in their calves and quads, which will significantly increase the amount of calories they passively burn, and that's on top of the energy you burn while riding the bicycle.
You don't need to make up bullshit to justify commuting with a bicycle, it will absolutely increase the amount of calories you will need to eat, but that's a low price to pay for the money you save not commuting with a car, let alone the health benefits
You are right, I was working with outdated info. Just last year there was a study that showed the body doesn't compensate metabolically for the exercise and the added calorie burn is not offset by conservation elsewhere. I can't find the source of my misconception, but I guess it was widespread enough that they ran a study to disprove it.