Re:Catching CO2 from trucks and reducing their emissions by 90%
by hanniabu on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @05:52PM
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> And you need to convince roughly half of the voting population
Not with gerrymandering, you'll effectively need much more. And then there's the fact that people are consistently voted in on a set of plans/promises that either are never followed through with or they do they opposite because they were just saying the things that get votes rather than what they actually intend to do. The system is broken, plain and simple, and it's not going to change because it benefits those with the ability to change it.
Re:Catching CO2 from trucks and reducing their emissions by 90%
by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @12:15AM
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Gerrymandering isn't really the issue. Even in a gerrymandered district, the representative is generally going to do what the majority of people in the district want. If you can convince the majority of the people in the majority of districts, you can get something done.
The biggest "problem" is that neither party is predicted to control the House, Senate and Presidency all at once any time soon, so it almost inherently has to be bipartisan. But the prevailing spirit is not exactly cooperation and good faith, on either side.
Re:Catching CO2 from trucks and reducing their emissions by 90%
by Ericson2314 on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @05:46PM
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There is some bipartisan lobbying for a carbon tax. There is also bipartisan whinging, which is crazy. Just pair it with a dividend like Canada.
Because the will of the people is in the other direction. At this point, its a matter of convincing the greater public of the evidence.
People are stubborn and difficult to convince. And you need to convince roughly half of the voting population (maybe ~50-million people) before things happen in the USA. That's how democracy works.
There's also a power-imbalance that gets somewhat political: how smaller states have 2 senators and therefore control the vote despite having a very small population. Convincing those people is more important, because their vote matters more than most people.
200,000 Wyoming residents have the voting power of 700,000 California residents, due to how Senators work.