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Is the US falling into the "resource curse"[0]? The fact that the US is now the world's #1 oil producer means that political policies will start to favor thing

• ty6853 2y ago
  It is due to the fact EVs relatively freeload via using roads without paying fuel taxes, and take from everyone else using ev federal subsidies. Of course 18-wheelers and large trucks are probably worse. Small passenger ICE cars end up paying way over their share because they don't do much wear on the road but still get hit for a disproportionately large gas and use taxes.
• Tadpole9181 2y ago
  It's so much worse than that. They aren't even doing this because of money, they're doing it as a part of a culture war against liberals. Intelligence, patience, kindness, sustainability, deliberation - all signs of weakness to be purged and replaced with a caricature of masculinity sold to them by media. It doesn't matter that it's better for their health, that it's economical, that it's important for their children, or even that it's a spiritually-mandated care for God's gift to man (for those that believe that sort of thing). Jesus is too woke anyway.