(08-18-2023, 09:58 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(08-18-2023, 09:42 AM)mikesez Wrote: Where would you move to that would have less pollution in this scenario?  The entire country would have cars with no converters.  What if you can't afford this medicine? What if you can't afford to move?

Those really sound like "you" problems to me. Your entire scenario is based on no one doing those things even though the current EV nonsense clearly shows you that companies and people will still act to solve those problems. You think that if we roll back regulatory overreach the whole world will become a barren polluted hellscape but really you've just watched way too many environmentalist propaganda flicks.

I assume you are a relatively healthy man with a decent income.  I am too.  But not everyone is.  What if you weren't? That's what I'm asking.

EVs are supported by tax breaks that you oppose.  Hybrids are supported by fleet efficiency requirements that you oppose.  Neither would be on the market at all if not for these policies.  The current market allows it to look like a choice where I care about the environment and buy a hybrid and you don't and buy conventional, but those choices don't exist without the government regulation creating them.  And you oppose that. You are not for me having these choices.  You are for me choosing the color and size of the conventional gas vehicle with high emissions that I want.

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