EV are approaching one third of new car registrations in England

[begreen]

And what about the 100,000+ flights per day? They aren't an issue?

Good point. It's happening on the planes and boats level. Major airlines have been investing in alternative fuels and short hop electic planes are being tested for FAA certification now. The marine industry made a major change from high sulfur fuels a few years ago. Hybrid power systems are being employed in several modern craft like ferry fleets, etc.

That said, we the consumer are part of the problem as long as we insist on items with long ship distance. Buy local as much as possible.

 

[Newbie78]

The green room is full of fairies, rainbows, and unicorns.

 

[EbS-P]

The green room is full of fairies, rainbows, and unicorns.

don’t tell my kids they will want all their rooms painted green!

 

[woodgeek]

It doesn't work as well as you'd think. You can't simply tax fossil fuels (or carbon emissions) without providing alternative infrastructure for consumers to switch to.

Canada is a prime example, we've had an annually increasing carbon tax since 2017. The result is our goods cost more due to increased shipping costs, it costs more to drive places, and more to heat homes. Carbon leakage is a real thing and pushes industries to other nations. Yet our EV and PHEV adoption lags behind almost every other developed nation.

In about a years time our carbon tax will likely be repealed.

Totally agree. There is a break in the environmentalism movement between the 'degrowth' and 'growth' approaches to greentech.

If carbon taxes 'worked' I guess they'd be OK, but I haven't seen any evidence that they do outside of an econ professor's head.

There is also the real fact that they don't work politically at all, any more than Carter telling Americans to put on a cardigan in the 1970s.

I am in the 'growth' camp: greentech will scale when it is cheaper and better than fossil tech. I AM in favor however, in situations where such scaling is believed to be inevitable, of using govt incentives to move that along. So long as they are smart incentives.