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100% in agreement. Fuel should be much more expensive and should find remediation efforts as well as investigating / building out alternatives. The problem that
by anonfornoreason 5y ago
100% in agreement. Fuel should be much more expensive and should find remediation efforts as well as investigating / building out alternatives. The problem that I struggle with is that disproportionately harms poor people. I can afford to fill my tank at 10 bucks a gallon, my mom with a 35mpg Honda who commutes to her job from a suburb can’t.
The real problem is energy production. So completely asinine to push for fleet electrification while base load is provided by coal and natural gas.
- austhrow743 5y agoClimate change disproportionately harms poor people. Environmental degradation in general disproportionately harms poor people. Everything disproportionately harms poor people. It's practically the definition. To be poor is to have little power. So for any X you have less to bring to bear to avoid it.
- nicoburns 5y ago> The problem that I struggle with is that disproportionately harms poor people I think the answer here is more general support for the poor. Progressive taxation, public transport, etc. That's politically difficult in the US of course. But it's surely the solution. > The real problem is energy production. That and energy consumption. IIRC the US consumes ~2x the energy per capita compared to Europe. Yes, we need greener production, but we could also do a lot by reducing consumptions.