(08-18-2023, 11:20 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(08-18-2023, 11:03 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: So apparently, according to you, I have the right to burn down your house, "Because it's what I want and I don't really have a need to care about you or what you want unless it's to my benefit."

I don't wish for anarchy, I wish for the smallest possible government to keep society civil. What we have is a corrupted leviathan that uses (in this case) "clean air" as a tool to enrich and empower some at the expense of others. And it grows more powerful every day. It's amazing how right Orwell was about you guys, you truly do love your Big Brother.

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(08-18-2023, 11:07 AM)mikesez Wrote: The cost of creating batteries and motors fit for a four passenger vehicle with 200+ miles of highway range have everything to do with economies of scale and very little if anything to do with regulations.

And we have no one who can do it? Innovation and invention are now dead pursuits? Capitalism died and there's nothing left of its corpse to plunder now? Is that what your position on this is, that we just can't do it if the government doesn't force it and the tax payers finance it?

Orwell wrote about Big Brother in 1948.  Whether you want to look at the UK or the US, the government has much less control of the economy now than it did then.

As for electric cars, it's plausible that something like Tesla exists without government support today, but it would sell much fewer cars and it would have reached the market years later. These types of government interventions speed private intervention and multiply consumer benefits by unlocking economies of scale. Now, most government subsidies do not do this and have much less benefit. But even in a world where we don't believe in mitigating climate change, electric cars still reduce our economy's exposure to the fluctuations of the oil market, so it has a national importance.

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