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In my ideal world, we'd have a full carbon tax as well as a vehicle weight tax, and we'd use part of that to fund more electrified public transit (e.g., trains, trams, trolleybuses) and bike infrastructure. Plus we need to actually legalize dense, walkable urbanism. The zoning codes and parking minimums in North America make it literally illegal to build anything dense, walkable, and transit-oriented across almost all the urban land, resulting in miles and miles of government-mandated sprawl.
The future of sustainable urban is truly in public transit and micromobility -- car dependency just doesn't make any sense in cities, as no amount of electric cars can make up for the harm caused by sprawling, car-dependent land use. Electric cars are obviously less bad than ICE cars, but just swapping out ICE cars for electric is not actually financially, socially, or environmentally sustainable.
We should still have electric cars for the use cases (e.g., rural areas) for which you truly do need them, but the vehicle weight arms race (especially for trucks and SUVs) is getting out of control and we need the electric cars we would still have to be much smaller and lighter like this. Fewer electric hummers, more electric kei trucks, more electric trains, more electric bikes.
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Could you look at other stances too? It's not just this.
Did you, self-declared "very moderate" Republican, vote for Trump either time?
Because, historically, Hillary and Biden would be considered very moderate Republicans.
I'll take that as a yes. You voted for the Nazi. Some moderate.
The only reason so many people are “obsessed” with him is because all 350M or so of us saw exactly the sort of person he is, and exactly the sort of damage he could do as president. Some people liked that. Most of us were horrified, and were additionally horrified by the fraction of people who did actually genuinely like him because of the things he did and continues to do. It’s a litmus test.
But yes - you’re nominally right, so let’s put the man aside for a moment. Personally, I’m still curious which current, national-level GOP policies you continue to find compelling.
Please present evidence that I have an "obsession" with Trump. Unless that was a lie. Was it a lie?
Two posts is not an obsession.
That is not evidence that I am "obsessed with Trump." So you lied. Why should I discuss anything with a liar?
You brought up being a Republican in a discussion about electric cars. I guess you're obsessed with Republicans.
Please quote my insult.
And this is a short list
Anyone who's a republican in 2023 is either an idiot, an asshole, or both.
The alternative currently being no restrictions whatsoever, which, statistically speaking, is more relevant than a small % worth of exceptions. Make me Supreme overlord of the universe and you bet you'll have a few exceptions.
Burn the fucking government to the ground for all I care.
OK and? I'm not playing some strategy game here. Optimizing existence isn't the goal. "the economy" isn't some God we must appease.
Pretty fucking bottom of the barrel shit to be deciding a vote based on. Decide polling locations by throwing a dart at a map for all I care.