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Electric vehicles should not get subsidized energy prices. The entire economy is being electrified, and competing for those scarce electrons. What logic is the
by bparsons 3y ago
Electric vehicles should not get subsidized energy prices. The entire economy is being electrified, and competing for those scarce electrons.
What logic is there in incentivizing personal vehicle use over other uses for this energy? Build gold plated public transit systems instead. It is much cheaper than trying to buy everyone a Tesla.
- CharlieDigital 3y ago> Build gold plated public transit systems instead. While I agree, the political will simply does not exist. There are also social and cultural forces pushing back against this as well.
- wongarsu 3y agoAnd on top of that, zoning in the US makes it basically impossible to reach densities where public transit works well. The last 50 years of construction were entire designed around everyone owning an automobile