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Originally Posted by Doctorfever
Sorry for not responding, I didn’t realize it was directed at me.
You’re probably not going to believe this, but I agree with the majority of your post. I was already doing the furnace thing before the carbon tax. So there was no change in my world. My personal situation, an electric vehicle doesn’t work for me. Definitely not against electric vehicles, and will probably own one someday, but it simply will not work for me and my family’s current setup.
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The thing about a market is it's not supposed to cause a 100% change it's supposed to be a nudge that effects people on the margins. Consumer behaviour can't fix this problem on it's own, but it does need to be part of the solution, and we don't have the base infrastructure to switch everything overnight. If tomorrow every vehicle was an EV we would have charging capacity problems, massive layoffs and shutdowns of small business all over (gas stations). If every one of us ordered a heat pump to replace our AC, there would be a 10 year installation backlog. People need to be nudged into these changes faster and faster.