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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
Right...and it is people like you that are going to sink our economy.
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Please provide quotes where I suggest courses of action that would be detrimental to our economy.
Thanks.
First of all, if the price is our economy, who the ##### cares? Would you rather a planet habitable by your great grand children, or a bigger pay check?
Second, I don't think there has to be any negative economic impact. In fact, I think countries who take the lead on this will benefeit economically as they are first to develop technologies that will be used by the rest of the world to address this issue.
I'll use Norway as an example. Cars are a huge source of C02. Norway has provided tax breaks on the purchase of electric cars, as well as free parking, no tolls, and use of bus lanes. As you can imagine they have a HUGE demand for electric cars there. Now think.. lets say someone there figures this out and starts developing and producing electric cars. Oddly enough lots of people would buy them. Now there electric car industry is ahead of the rest of the world, and they start selling them internationally. Jobs are created. Lots of people are buying new cars. Your right... that would totally kill their economy.
There was already a huge demand for electric cars in California in the 90's (there still is, the last electric Rav4 that sold on ebay went for something like $48,000. More than it cost new). There is a 2 year waiting list that costs $50,000 to get on to by the Tesla (and electric car faster than some Ferrair's). International growth of this industry would be very possible.
Anyways, one example. There would be many other industries such as cleaner coal power, nuclear power etc. All would require new technologies, all would be selling new products.
Your right. The economy would be totally #####ed if we decided to do anything about this over here.