way2roll wrote:
blt2ski wrote:
for those of you that work or play in places that get somilar rules thrown at them..... how many have truly caused issues? how many got delayed due to technology being unable to do the requirement? so things get delayed.....
i can think of MANY government recomendations and regs that got passed over my time on this planet. many that got delayed due to the abilities of industry etc for many reasons not able to meet the regs.
EV vehicles have a place. At the moment, not able to meet specs for us all. Not a problem in my book today. When 2034 rolls around, hopefully tech, mines have opened to meet lithium and other material needs have come online, we might meet regs. If not, then relook at regs.
marty
The issue for me isn't the technology hindering me in any way. I like technology. It's the lack of free market and being forced to adopt despite challenges and forcing me to pay for it. That's socialism not free market. If you want to spend your own billions developing a product that could produce benefit and profit for you, knock yourself out. But don't cherry pick science in your sales pitch to force me to be an investor making me poorer while you get rich. EV's haven't made it on their own in over a hundred years. Just goes to show if you throw enough money at anything you can make it work. As long as it's not your money. And "work" is pretty loose, especially in the utopian benefit pamphlets.
And those mines cause as much if not more ecological destruction than this effort is touted to saving. Your granddaughter may have cleaner air paired with dirty water, erosion and no place to plant anything, with further animal extinction.
Many that talk about "free market" seem to have a hard time understanding the fossil fuel industry has been subsidized by society for all their lives.
And forced to pay for? Look at the cost of extreme weather events last year. But that's fine because we are taxed by insurance companies to pay most of that, not not the evil socialist government.
Damage from mines? Sure. But look at how much less damage a coal mine or oil well does in 2023, compared to 1923 or even 1953. The fact that more people are aware, and willing to reduce profit to make things cleaner can give the kids born today hope.
