Re:The electric car has dropped out of favor in Denmark
by TeMPOraL on Monday June 12, 2017 @06:29AM
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Agreed RE parking, but RE taxing TV - well, I'd say sure, tax it too. The more I think of it, the more it seems to me that a general CO₂ emission tax would help solve so many problems in the current world...
Re:The electric car has dropped out of favor in Denmark
by adrianN on Monday June 12, 2017 @06:38AM
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Most people who think about it and are not politicians seem to think that a carbon tax or a cap and trade system would be a very good tool to prevent global warming from getting even worse.
No different from making any other object - you might as well tax e.g. TVs if that's the rationale.
> - Cost of parking, especially in cities:
Agreed, but better solved by disallowing street parking and taxing land ownership. Again, tax the parts that introduce the negative externalities as directly as possible, otherwise you create perverse incentives.