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Its basically just a tax trick to make us look and feel better about all these oil fields we're harvesting at full speed
by finnjohnsen2 8y ago
Its basically just a tax trick to make us look and feel better about all these oil fields we're harvesting at full speed
- newnewpdro 8y agoThis is irrelevant. The potential value is in an entire nation demonstrating it's possible to function perfectly well at a high quality of life on an electrified transportation system. Whatever means were used to compel its citizens to cooperate with pivoting energy sources is moot. Every nation will have to figure that out for itself. Edit: added "potential" qualifier
- navigatesol 8y ago>The value is in an entire nation demonstrating An entire nation? It was one month of around 10,000 cars. A good sign, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Let's see how month two goes perhaps?
- newnewpdro 8y agoYou're right, I wasn't careful enough in typing what I intended to say, edited, thanks.
- finnjohnsen2 8y agoIt matters how you pay for your your clean vehicles. If your money is from burning lots og oil, which is partially the case here, you may not eventually be saving any CO2 from the atmosphere. Which is the whole point of electric vehicles. I would love to see some numbers on these things.
- newnewpdro 8y agoThere is no realistic scenario where all the remaining oil stays in the ground. The best practical case is that it gets applied towards transitioning to renewables ASAP. What seems more likely right now is that most of it gets burned gratuitously on Business As Usual; frivolously flying around the planet and driving archaic gas-guzzling machines without even preparing ourselves for when it runs out. Actually stopping CO2 emissions and not burning most of the remaining oil is a ridiculous fantasy.
- bassman9000 8y agoHomogeneous, small, rich nation. Qualifiers are important.