Re: I have significant concerns about this too, actually.
damookster Send a noteboard - 21/03/2024 12:33:44 PM
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Unlike you, I (probably unsurprisingly) have no issue with the government banning the production and sale of certain goods. I think the massive pollution caused by cars is more than enough to justify all sorts of intervention, including the requirement that they all CBE cars be replaced by EV ones.
Unlike you, I (probably unsurprisingly) have no issue with the government banning the production and sale of certain goods. I think the massive pollution caused by cars is more than enough to justify all sorts of intervention, including the requirement that they all CBE cars be replaced by EV ones.
And yet, the government still hasn't banned tobacco. They levy punitive taxes and ostracize users to confined smoking areas. But no ban.
But you have to factor in the environmental cost of producing EVs, the cost of setting up the infrastructure for them, the social cost of elevated car prices on the poor... there's a lot to consider, and 2032 seems very close.
Yes, this is very under reported. EVs are a NIMBY problem. Lithium mines are environmental disasters. Cobalt mines are worse. But cobalt mining is all in the Congo and most lithium comes from Western Australia or China so no one here sees the damages caused.
And above all else, I am really, really confused about the decision to push this in an election year. This will become "Biden wants to take away your cars" just as easily as walkable cities became "the government will shoot you if you walk more than fifteen minutes away from your home." More easily, even. This one has some truth to it.
Agreed. Biden vacillates between trying to move to the center and trying to appease the Party's progressive wing. It doesn't seem to be a winning strategy.
Mook
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