Republicans enraged by Biden’s efforts to keep gas prices lower
msnbc.com
President Joe Biden is taking fresh steps to help keep gas prices from climbing. For Republicans to see this as “disgusting” and “disgraceful” is bizarre.
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Desperately hanging on to old things is not a long term solution. Petition your government to facilitate a decrease on the reliance of oil, not to help you keep it the same.
The tech is not there though. Most of the USA is rural. It needs to be heavily adopted in the large cities first before trying a one size fits all and rip off the bandaid approach.
And that is exactly why technological development should be supported, rather than using that money to desperately keep the old ways. Pouring money into temporarily subsidizing a finite resource at the expense of investments into the future is ultimate short-term thinking. Is it really so bad if fuel prices creep up over time? This of course assumes that this money would be used for more productive ways otherwise, which is not a safe bet.
If you stop the subsidizes, it's not going to creep up slowly, its going to shock the entire system. We have plenty of funds that can be used for EV adoption.
Desperately hanging on old things is what has been done in my country, Italy, for decades. Most of the population is conservative.
Not that our money even allow moving on. Most cars I see on the road are 15+ years old.
In Italy the combination of solar panels on your roof in combination with an EV should imply that you pay very little in electricity and fuel bills. There should be a decent group of households for which such an investment pays off.