• stella@lemm.ee
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    There doesn’t seem to be much of push to get infrastructure like charging stations in place

    Is this code for taxpayer handouts to private businesses so they can maximize profit off of customers?

    This isn’t the way forward and it’ll likely take government incentives to make it happen.

    There it is!

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      Infrastructure needs central backing, that’s not exactly controversial. Would you rather each individual company has to fund its own chargers and end up with a patchwork that only works for each brand individually (and probably change over time to not support older models). Thats how the railways initially developed in 19th century Britain and it was a horrible mess of privately owned incompatible gauges.

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        I’d rather businesses that require government funding to operate to be owned by the government.

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          Great, so would I. Doesn’t change the fact that in the here and now they aren’t and we cant wait for a great socialist revolution to start addressing climate change.

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            It doesn’t take a great socialist revolution, and nations won’t stop using fossil fuels as long as they remain cheaper than other options.

            Other options won’t be cheaper until we run out of easily-extractable oil.

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      Can you name a single industry that wasn’t created off the back of government investment? This isn’t about handing money to private companies, it’s about getting the shit we need to comply with the laws that are being set. I’d fully support private industry funding the entire thing but what evidence is there that they’d actually do it? They haven’t over the last decade outside of Tesla, so what’s going to change that now?

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        If it needs government money to survive, then it should be owned by the government.

        That way, the only people getting paid are the ones doing the work. We won’t be wasting money on private ‘owners’.