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Originally Posted by blankall
Oil companies aren't stopping anyone from buying local and riding the bus.
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It's not that simple. Collective problems can't be solved solely through changes in decisions made by individuals. Here's a video that talks about that in more detail:
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Edit: to add to my point. Politicians don't want to be the ones to make unpopular decisions. So they have a tendency to wait until technology is available to solve a problem before legislating against any such problems. In the case of fuel efficiency this is more or less exactly what happened. Politicians have known that air pollution was a major problem for decades. In this case they regulated efficiency requirements that were likely already about to occur naturally. Politicians aren't really acting on this even now.
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Well exactly. Politicians generally don't do things that go against the beliefs/ideologies of their voters. What do you think the effect of climate change denial efforts has been on the beliefs/ideologies of voters over the past half century?