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I agree that the EU and the world needs to move aggressively on clean energy (including nuclear), climate change etc. But I really hate this tendency to overly
by avar 3y ago
I agree that the EU and the world needs to move aggressively on clean energy (including nuclear), climate change etc.
But I really hate this tendency to overly micro-manage the economy.
Yes, gasoline cars pollute, but then the solution is to price a mitigation of that pollution into gasoline, even if than means it'll cost 20€/liter.
It's not to ban one particular category of devices that happens to use gasoline by some arbitrary date.
It's especially stupid because out of all the users of gasoline, cars are some of the "cleanest" due to emissions regulations.
- cletusw 3y agoThen middle and upper class people will just keep on polluting at marginally lower rates. The only real solutions to this problem are ones that get the will & finances of the upper classes involved.
- avar 3y agoSo what? I'm suggesting pricing in the externalities. It's not a problem that you want to release a ton of CO^2, if scrubbing and permanently sequestering a corresponding ton of CO^2 is included in the price. Instead the EU wants to micro-manage the market, and only address some sources of pollution. They're not banning gasoline engines in general, and notably doing nothing about non-automotive gasoline engines, which relatively speaking are much bigger polluters.