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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
You may be right. On the other hand, if government isn't deciding then someone else is. The decision is always in the hand of someone who isn't perfect and is likely biased for some reason, be it for the adquisition of fame, power or riches, People do not always make desicions because of an altruistic sincere interest in human health, security and overall wellfare, and even if they do they can still make the wrong decision.
What exactly do you mean by challenge them to compete with all other alternatives? What makes a winner? I do believe that we should be open to all options and weed out the ones that are more harmful than good. But who decides that and on what basis?
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Decisions don't have to be made by a single entity or specific group. Who sets the price of most goods? The market sets the price by millions of participants, with sellers trying to get the highest price and buyers trying to get the lowest. Where they agree is the price. No single person decided what the price of milk is.
As I've been saying, IF CO2 reduction is important enough to act on at the federal level, the ONLY effective and least corrupt way to accomplish that goal is to slowly and progressively increase the price of fossil fuels. That is accomplished via taxation.
When prices rise for a commodity like fossil fuels, it provides incentive in every sector of the market to reduce consumption. Rather than a single "solution" being dictated, like EV subsidies, every facet of living attempts to reduce fuel consumption. The market sort through solutions to determine what the best solutions are. It might be EVs, but we'll never know because the experiment wasn't allowed to occur. We might end up with the 4th best solution because some "genius" told us what it has to be.
That's what I mean by competing, a fair playing field where any solution has the potential to be dominant based on merits, not based on subsidies and coercion.
We have very incompetent and corrupt leaders because we're very incompetent and corrupt ourselves.