• Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What really sucks is that we are penalizing newer, greener technologies in order to prop up older non-profitable technologies.

    There is a huge subsidy in the US for coal power plants. That needs to wind down, preferably in the next 4 years.

    A few states charge higher registration fees for hybrid and electric vehicles, while at the same time suppressing or almost eliminating the gas tax during post-pandemic inflation.

    Certain groups are dead set on boiling the the frog here, without even realizing that they are a lobster in the same pot of water.

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      The worst part is that renewables and EVs are generally just better in every way.

      Just because they don’t go vroom vroom, a majority of the population don’t like them.

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        Inb4 some idiot goes “but it takes metal mined from places and shipped across the ocean to make Teslas!!!”

        Like your Ford Raptor is sustainably grown and harvested in small-plot ecologically friendly mom and pop truck farms…