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It doesn't simply "have a long history of political failure"; it has a history of political failure in certain areas of the United States. In much of the rest o
by maeil 4y ago
It doesn't simply "have a long history of political failure"; it has a history of political failure in certain areas of the United States. In much of the rest of the developed world, e.g. nearly all of Western-Europe, it has a history of success and taxing cars based on fuel consumption and emissions has indeed caused buyers to gravitate towards more fuel-efficient cars.
- WalterBright 4y agoDo they tax the rate of emissions, or the amount emitted? It's important to tax the latter.
- maeil 4y agoBoth. The former directly through taxes on the cars themselves and the latter indirectly through fuel taxes, which while imperfect works well as a proxy.
- WalterBright 4y agoFuel taxes work well for CO2 emissions, but not for other emissions, where the design of the ICE can reduce them dramatically.
- rgmerk 4y agoFair point, but the EU ETS took many, many years to have any serious effect as I understand it.