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Can you imagine the commute of someone in a suburban or rural area, in winter, on a bike? Yeah, I just did it all last winter. It would just make driving more
by ip26 7y ago
Can you imagine the commute of someone in a suburban or rural area, in winter, on a bike?
Yeah, I just did it all last winter.
It would just make driving more annoying and expensive for them.
Where does the money for these subsidies come? Taxes. What if cutting oil & gas subsidies came with a proportional (averaged) reduction in taxes?
- gridlockd 7y ago> Yeah, I just did it all last winter. Good for you. > What if cutting oil & gas subsidies came with a proportional (averaged) reduction in taxes? You can't "cut" subsidies, because there are no direct oil and gas subsidies. There are favorable conditions (e.g. lack of taxation) that are sometimes construed as a subsidy and there are externalities (like carbon emissions) that aren't priced in. You would have to raise taxes in one place (e.g. carbon/gasoline tax) and then lower them in another place (income tax?). However, I thought the point of the parent was to raise taxes to make less people drive cars. My point is that if you do that, most people will still drive cars, they will simply pay more for it.
- ip26 7y agoA carbon tax plus a carbon dividend to the public (just for example) would leave average drivers paying the same, above average drivers paying more, and everyone incentivized to drive less, or electric.