You are absolutely correct. The direct economic incentives favor short-sighted purchases. I am not intending to blame you for the statement, but just agreeing

You are absolutely correct. The direct economic incentives favor short-sighted purchases. I am not intending to blame you for the statement, but just agreeing that it's true if only for now. The problem is obvious to anyone living in Paris just two weeks ago. They had an emergency shutdown of traffic in the city due to pollution from cars. There needs to be a balanced economic system that reflects the harm that oil causes to our environment and countrymen. Same thing goes with plastic waste, where some countries have added an environmental tax for plastic packaging. It can be a tax on CO2, on oil, a deductible on electric cars, solar, etc. But it needs to be large enough to reflect the harm. Some taxes exist, but they are not obviously not enough to balance the harm to the environment.