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It's wild seeing a space that usually blasts companies from using regulation to give themselves a moat. I think the only way to make fair and not just kill majo
by Spivak 3y ago
It's wild seeing a space that usually blasts companies from using regulation to give themselves a moat. I think the only way to make fair and not just kill major US auto manufacturers while still putting pressure to for everyone to improve would be demanding the same efficiency increase for both ICE and electric vehicles.
Like can you imaging GM lobbying for stricter regulation on the total weight of vehicles due to the excess road maintenance and environmental damage of wearing through break-pads faster? Like we would all know it's not altruistic and they're just picking one metric they have an inherent advantage on and pushing that harder.
- olivermarks 3y agoI think anyone with an ounce of common sense is aware that EVs are analogous to the steam era with similar dangers. Coal power is used to create and force tremendous amounts of trapped energy into batteries, which like a steam boiler is highly stressed with the added danger of explosion, thermal runaway and toxic chemical fire that can't be extinguished. Where EVs - heavy, tire and road shredding devices requiring enormous amounts of largely unrecyclable materials in their batteries etc - have virtually no regulatory burden (why is there not legislation requiring mechanical door locks for example?) ICE vehicles, which are now highly sophisticated and efficient, are subject to endless meddling and restrictions. An entire airport car park burnt down last week, which is an unprecedented event masked by a compliant media who are obsessed with selling the concept that EVs are our future - all just because a bunch of bungling politicians have tried to legislate change. It's all a terrible mess compounded by encouraging people to abandon common sense and buy into the hallucinatory idea grids and the planet can support EVs within a few short years