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This ban doesn’t just end oil furnaces, but also prevents them from being replaced with any fossil fuel heating source, including natural gas furnaces. If the r
by throwawaysea 5y ago
This ban doesn’t just end oil furnaces, but also prevents them from being replaced with any fossil fuel heating source, including natural gas furnaces. If the replacement forced upon everyone is so perfect, why isn’t it everyone’s natural choice? The modern political left has become obsessed with bans. This is a slippery slope and is incompatible with free societies where individuals have choice and agency. It’s one thing to encourage certain actions or educate people. It’s another thing entirely to override individual preferences and variations with a one size fits all dictate.
- dredmorbius 5y agoFossil fuels carry massive externalties in both production and consumption which are not accounted for by the market. Since the market won't naturally incorporate full costs, other mechansims for imposing those costs, or otherwise manipulating behaviour, must be utilised. The answer to all market failures is not in fact market-it-harder.