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>If you ban gas cars by mandating EVs you have the same problem Yes. The point is you shouldn’t trivialize the problem and need to account for second order ef
by bumby 1y ago
>If you ban gas cars by mandating EVs you have the same problem
Yes.
The point is you shouldn’t trivialize the problem and need to account for second order effects. If you want to mandate EVs, fine, but now you have to solve the problem of reduced infrastructure funding when it’s already below sustainment levels. That doesn’t sound very smart, and you can’t just hand wave the problem away. Other people in the thread have pointed out it’s “dumb” to levy an EV tax without understanding they are related.
- stickfigure 1y agoFind some other thread to argue that point in. It's not relevant in this thread, which leads with "If we want people to move to EVs..."
- bumby 1y agoYour gatekeeping keeping is both unwarranted and against the HN guidelines of fostering curious conversation. I don’t know if you’re being obtuse or discussing in bad-faith, but I’ll make the relevance explicit: >"If we want people to move to EVs..." …then we need to understand and address the positive and negative externalities. Those include the tax revenue lost from gasoline taxes.