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Originally Posted by redpoint5
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There is no way that artificial (gov't) requirements on mpg or carbon emissions will "help" the environment in the long run. These regulations only serve to stifle our economy (U.S.) while giving a boost to those that do not participate in MGW hysteria.
If an alternate technology is to be developed and adopted, it has to do so based on it's own merits, not on unnatural manipulation of the market.
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Like environmental policy has never worked before? (Ozone depletion, smog, overfishing...)
This economy stifling bit is overblown, unless you're talking cap-and-trade, which I'm not. Technological costs are incremental, as long as softened by phase-in so that capital equipment doesn't get trashed. Revenue neutral means that higher industrial costs are equally offset by lower cost-of-living.