Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car road tax

Re:Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car... by URSpider94 on Saturday November 21, 2020 @06:16PM (#25173470)

That might be rational, but it’s highly unpopular with the 99% of people who don’t drive electric cars. This is virtue signaling,

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car... by _-___________-_ on Saturday November 21, 2020 @08:05PM (#25173966)

Incentivising some behaviour is basically always unpopular with the group currently doing the opposite behaviour.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car... by CogentHedgehog on Saturday November 21, 2020 @09:55PM (#25174542)

So you're saying the 1% of people driving electric cars should pay for the climate change caused by the 99% that are not?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car... by GreenWatermelon on Sunday November 22, 2020 @06:24AM (#25176620)

The 99% of people who drive ICEs and can afford an EV should get one.

Many good things are unpopular. Shutting down coal mining operations is unpopular with miners. Staying at home to avoid spreading a disease is unpopular, but we have to do it anyway because it's important.

Switching to EVs is important for slowing down climate change, and should be incentived (incentivised?).

What those 2 Australian states did translates directly into accelerated Climate change and Coastal cities sinking.

[ Parent | on HN ]