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▲ trollbridge 18 hours ago

Describe how you think these “true costs” should be imposed. In the third world, infrastructure isn’t generally subsidised. People have to pay for everything. Yet cars, trucks, and motorbikes are still preferred - including EVs.

It is often a huge increase in a family’s quality of life once one of them saves enough to get a motorbike or ebike.

▲Sharlin 7 hours ago | parent [-]

People nowhere pay for the full external and opportunity costs of cars, particularly ICE cars, in the purchase price (or even in fuel price), including carbon emissions, particulate emissions, noise, waste of space, perceived and actual safety, and so on.

Cars are literally an econ 101 textbook example of negative externalities.

Two-wheel vehicles are much more reasonable in all ways, I’m not arguing against them (although two-stroke ICEs are definitely terrible things).