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EVs are taking over the rest of the world much faster than the US (electrek.co)
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[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think the US has the whole subsidy game upside down - governments should subsidize societally positive actions even if companies are currently not doing them

Your bang on here. Externalities are a must. Most economists love them, but they tend to be unpopular with the public.

But I think you miss the point. Cycling, rail, micromobilty, high density are what should absolutely be subsidised. Instead they are taxes more than they should be and cars and suburbs and subsidised because, well I don't know why lobbying I guess.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 2 points 6 months ago

I live in a place where cycling is the norm for short trips, trains are for longer trips. I still understand that the US is currently fucked up with their infrastructure to the point that people will need to buy cars either way.

Cities and metropolitan areas should be free of car dependency, but rural places will need something. And that something would better be an EV rather than another F150.