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Originally Posted by Fuzz
So the feds announce new EV targets, and we get another long unhinged rant from some crazy talk show host.
Probably the only part you need to read...
https://www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?x...1417FBB157A235
Sounds like another get rich quick scheme for provincial law firms at our expense. |
The depressing part is if she wasn't so unhinged she'd probably be right.
The Feds had a functioning, escalating carbon tax. That's the perfect policy to reduce emissions, because it allocates the emissions to the people most willing to pay for them, which will be the places where they are most costly to replace. Then they nerfed that in a panic about polls in Atlantic Canada, and so now we're getting random ad-hoc limits on gas power, oil and gas emissions, and mandates on EVs.
If you just let the carbon tax do its job this would all get sorted out. There probably are some rural people who drive around doing industrial things in the wilderness for whom EVs are a terrible idea. If they want to pay the carbon tax cost of that then great. If you make gasoline very expensive everyone else will switch. Same for O&G emissions and natural gas power plants. Where the emissions are very expensive to replace they can stay, and where they aren't the tax will cause emitters to stop.
I don't know. I feel like in the past there used to be adults making rational decisions involved in the process, and that seems to be lacking at every level now.