| ▲ | wffurr 4 hours ago | |
>> no issues at all Other than all the CO2, CO, and NOx you've emitted over that time period. The government should have started taxing barrels of oil in the 70s. | ||
| ▲ | jandrese 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
If you want to kill coal and oil just tax them the fair market price of carbon sequestration for the amount of carbon they ultimately emit. Use that money to sequester the carbon. This is how carbon markets should have been set up, but unfortunately that would have killed the modern economy. | ||
| ▲ | iancmceachern an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Look at the same specs for the cyber truck. There is about twice the carbon in the manufacturing of these, so it counts on people driving them for hundreds of thousands of miles, I don't see that happening with them because you can't even take a normal road trip while towing. These things just aren't going to see the miles, because they can't. They're just not usable as trucks. https://insideevs.com/news/719434/tesla-cybertruck-awd-vs-ra... Also the power plants and diesel generators for the data centers... https://www.selc.org/press-release/new-images-reveal-elon-mu... | ||
| ▲ | tracker1 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
If that was the goal, then killing nuclear power and holding it back for the past 4 decades was probably the wrong move. Solar and other "renewable" sources aren't enough to meet energy needs now, let alone the near future. | ||
| ▲ | horsawlarway 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
The government started taxing fuel (both gas and diesel) at the federal level in 1932. Individual states go back to 1919. | ||