That is exactly what I've been saying; that taxation is the proper way to manipulate a market and affect necessary changes, and the closer to the root problem you target the taxation, the more effective it will be.
As you point out, it isn't the miles that cause the pollution. It isn't even necessarily the highly inefficient vehicles that cause the pollution if they aren't being driven.
So why do people still try to dance around the problem without looking at it directly? Why do the politicians with the most idiotic ideas even get 1 second of notice? It's like people are mesmerized by Rube Goldberg solutions to a problem, but not the simple and reliable methods.
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EV subsidies are stupid, corrupt, and pointless. It's like trying to get a guy to stop beating you with a baseball bat by promoting the sale of wiffle ball.
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