archive.today • What to Know About Biden's New Clean Cars Regulation - The New York Times
The quote is the very last paragraph. The media is so annoying. I often don't read articles from start to finish anymore. I scan them to find the bit that finally gets to the fucking point.
The other links are at the top of the homepage - https://www.nytimes.com/
Your proposal is to make gas more expensive by taxing it, under the hope that drivers will therefore want to drive less or buy hybrids or EVs? That's some rube goldberg shit compared to just making vehicle manufacturers build cars with higher emissions standards until EVs become the only economical option. Standard liberal obsession with modifying percentages and hoping secondary or tertiary effects achieve their goal.
By continuing to emit carbon you force - not tell - people to live in a dying biosphere. Come up with a solution to that that isn't just whining. And these rules don't apply to emergency service vehicles. They apply to the 99% of vehicles on the road which are not emergency service vehicles. Emergency service vehicles can be powered by directly burning a barrel of crude oil under a tank of water for all I care.
instead of bad faith and hostility, maybe you could try to have a productive discussion. the US economic sector emitting the most greenhouse gas is transportation. and 83% of transportation emissions are from cars and trucks. that second link goes on to show that using cars and trucks for personal transport and freight are the worst for CO2 emissions, except air freight (much worse than truck freight). but air travel emits less CO2 per passenger-mile compared to personal vehicles. there are many reasons China emits a lot less CO2 per capital than the US but one of them is the widespread use of mass transit
It's a full-spectrum effort, there isn't a single silver bullet. You are objecting to one of the smallest changes that needs to happen.
Read Half Earth Socialism. Or if the S word scares you off read The Ministry for the Future. It's a hard sci-fi novel so it's entertaining. It illustrates at least the lower bound of effort that will be required in the coming decades.
I don't actually think policies from The Ministry for the Future are prescriptions for getting us out of this, that's why I recommended Half Earth Socialism. It does however instill an appropriate sense of urgency and scale in its narrative.
go away dipshit, nobody needs your useless ass here
You are deeply unserious.
Standard idiot obsession with wanting to tell everybody exactly how to live.We're Not Republicans
The real answer is, stop funding interstates and move that funding into public transit and high speed rail. EV’s are at best a stop-gap measure, and people go to where the infrastructure is, so make that infrastructure not the one fossil fuel-powered personal vehicles use.