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What really sucks is that we are penalizing newer, greener technologies in order to prop up older non-profitable technologies.
There is a huge subsidy in the US for coal power plants. That needs to wind down, preferably in the next 4 years.
A few states charge higher registration fees for hybrid and electric vehicles, while at the same time suppressing or almost eliminating the gas tax during post-pandemic inflation.
Certain groups are dead set on boiling the the frog here, without even realizing that they are a lobster in the same pot of water.
The worst part is that renewables and EVs are generally just better in every way.
Just because they don't go vroom vroom, a majority of the population don't like them.
Inb4 some idiot goes "but it takes metal mined from places and shipped across the ocean to make Teslas!!!"
Like your Ford Raptor is sustainably grown and harvested in small-plot ecologically friendly mom and pop truck farms....