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Bans are the worst form of politics anyways. Just show people how much more affordable the alternatives are and subsidize local manufacturing of new environmentally friendly and sustainable tech. Let people make their own choices with their wallets and all will work out in the long run. People don’t want to be told what to do.
But companies need to be told what to do. Because for them, keeping everything the same and never changing is the cheapest. Even if you factor in the massive amount of lobbying they do against alternatives.
Are you one of those "regulations are bad" people? Many regulations are outright bans.
No, not at all. I am just saying there are more effective ways of steering people in the right direction here than banning their beloved combustion engines.
Just creating an illusion of choice while the eco friendly option is the only sensible option for their wallets will do the trick. The anti-crowd will suddenly rave about their new car and how much money they save instead of bitching about bans and stupid politicians.
Are those "more effective ways" in the room with you right now?
People have tried to be rational about it for ages and guess what, it didn't work.
That only works when the population for the most part acts rationally and reasons from facts and not like a cult that lives completely divorced from reality and doesn't reason and can't be reasoned with.
This outright ignores multiple facts.
1 we have known how bad this shit is since the 1970s. When Exxon was the company that released the research. Yes Exxon discovered climate change.
The company then changed leadership and spent a fortune trying to bury their own research.
The simple fact is. Without government bans. Corperations have 0 motive to change their previous investment strategies. And huge motive to fight any competition that dose.
People have known electrical power is more efficient and cheaper since the 1900s. But as oil corps have been investing in infrastructure and government control since then. They have sold convenience as an intrinsic element of fossil fuel. Dispite the huge huge investment tax payers have been forced to spend to create this network.