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MichMan

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6. News flash. They do make EV and fuel efficient ICE vehicles

Reply to Stargazer99 (Reply #5)

Fri Oct 18, 2024, 10:46 AM

Oct 2024

On one hand we say we want low gas prices, yet act confused when consumers walk by EV in the showroom and buy full size pickups and SUV instead. If we were truly serious about getting people to stop using fossil fuels, the best way to make that happen is to make fuel more expensive, not demand it is cheaper.

In what world would a state fine oil companies billions of dollars, yet none of that would be passed on to consumers?

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New York officials call for big oil to be prosecuted for fueling climate disasters [View all] Passages Oct 2024 OP

Good, let's hope this is the start of every state, agency or other... Think. Again. Oct 2024 #1

Unless we put in place a 10 or 20 year plan to phase out fossil fuels this will just be price of doing business for... dutch777 Oct 2024 #2

"These disasters are fueled by the climate crisis, which is primarily caused by the burning of fossil fuels." MichMan Oct 2024 #3

And what alternative vehicle does the gas user have? Punish the user but not the producer? Stargazer99 Oct 2024 #5

News flash. They do make EV and fuel efficient ICE vehicles MichMan Oct 2024 #6

So we make the middleclass taxpayer pay for it? Big business are the biggest Welfare Queens in the nation Stargazer99 Oct 2024 #7

The consumer always pays MichMan Oct 2024 #8

Punish those who are not the cause of the problem my point big business are the real Welfare Queens Stargazer99 Oct 2024 #9

That is nice you have the money to purchase one of these vehicles-that doesn't mean everybody does Stargazer99 Oct 2024 #10

I don't drive an EV, nor do I have a Pickup or SUV MichMan Oct 2024 #11

Big business is the problem-too big to control and capitalism has no morals-so death and destruction Stargazer99 Oct 2024 #4