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Originally Posted by redpoint5
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.
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I'm not sure if taxation would or wouldn't work. It sounds good on the surface. But the objective of being the most profitable instead of the most responsible would still be the same.
Didn't Europe tax gasoline and had people switching over to diesel, which ended up with VW's diesel scandal? And with cobalt being tied to child labor, how do we know that whatever other alternative won't still be the result of such corruption?
But regardless of what politics would or wouldn't work, I like the Aptera design, not just for an EV, although it would be my preference if I ever did buy another EV if they ever come out with one with a rear seat.
I do like lots of different cars, whether they're powered by gasoline, electricity, diesel, natural gas or other. But although I often ponder if I'd bet better off in another vehicle, there just isn't anything out there that's enticing enough to make me want to trade what I have for it. I feel like there's no reason to just drive what I got until it can't be driven anymore.
The only vehicle that truly catches my attention is the Aptera, or at least it would be if it had a rear seat, even if it were 30 feet long. And sure, they probably won't ever make a 5 seat Aptera. They may not even make any Aptera. But that doesn't mean I can't dream.
I don't want an ID4 or a Model Y or a RAV4 Prime. I want a car that doesn't exist. My options are wait to see if they'll ever build one, build one myself or just do nothing.