While I agree with almost everything you’re saying, the reality is that too much of our infrastructure and peoples’ lives are based on gas. Removing gas subsidies and limiting production needs to be preceded by cost effective measures to allow people to move away from gas. This means better mass transit, a more robust electrical grid, more diverse renewable electrical generation and storage, and cost effective sustainable vehicles (both cars and semis.) There is a sharp divide between those that can afford electric vehicles and those who cannot. Those that cannot would be hit double hard by an increased cost of good that are transported by gas vehicles. Gas should be more expensive, but alternatives need to be more viable.
Let’s be honest, it means switching to renewables and the grid upgrades. The U.S. wont have mass transit upgrades for 100 years. The renewables will be done around 2050. Why, not because they are worse for the environment, because they will cost more and are dumb for investors.
While I agree with almost everything you’re saying, the reality is that too much of our infrastructure and peoples’ lives are based on gas. Removing gas subsidies and limiting production needs to be preceded by cost effective measures to allow people to move away from gas. This means better mass transit, a more robust electrical grid, more diverse renewable electrical generation and storage, and cost effective sustainable vehicles (both cars and semis.) There is a sharp divide between those that can afford electric vehicles and those who cannot. Those that cannot would be hit double hard by an increased cost of good that are transported by gas vehicles. Gas should be more expensive, but alternatives need to be more viable.
Let’s be honest, it means switching to renewables and the grid upgrades. The U.S. wont have mass transit upgrades for 100 years. The renewables will be done around 2050. Why, not because they are worse for the environment, because they will cost more and are dumb for investors.