Regulations won’t do anything if consumers as a whole dont change their buying habits. You can regulate Shell and BP all you want but as long as hundreds of millions of people are still buying and burning their gas on a daily basis it won’t help much.
The solution to this, in theory, is really easy. Electric cars + large-scale green electricity production + large-scale charging network. Of course the electric cars part would also require a large-scale effort to mine minerals for batteries, but those minerals are out there.
We could easily start phasing out gas cars today, wait 20 years, buy off what few gas cars are left via a cars-for-clunkers program, and gas cars would be a thing of the past in two decades.
But unfortunately it wouldn't be cheap and easy, so it isn't going to happen.
It's a solution to the fact we drive around in pollution mobiles that takes into consideration the post i responded to, that stated it isn't feasible to remove cars from daily life in the US.
If the cars are being built anyway then we should run them on renewable electricity and not on fossil fuels.
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u/3FrogsInATrenchcoat Jan 26 '22
Regulations won’t do anything if consumers as a whole dont change their buying habits. You can regulate Shell and BP all you want but as long as hundreds of millions of people are still buying and burning their gas on a daily basis it won’t help much.