Re:Europe’s aggressive new emissions rules put gas engines o...
by imtringued on Thursday July 15, 2021 @10:09AM
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Honestly, I think the voters are plain stupid because there is no better explanation for it. For example. The greens in Germany want to make the CO2 tax revenue neutral. You then get people complaining that getting their tax payments back is unfair because there is that one millionaire who spent hundreds of thousands of euros on being CO2 neutral and thus pays nothing in CO2 taxes and gets a whopping 75€ per year back from the state.
The benefit from the reduction in CO2 emissions (from average to 0) is already worth more than 75€ so the state is getting a bargain. Imagine that for every 1€ you spend someone else spends 1000€ in reducing their CO2 emissions. Where else can you get a 100000% ROI on this planet?
Of course this is where that fictional scenario breaks down. Those people are the exception. There are maybe 100000 of them in Germany. The vast majority of people that receive money back are going to be average people who emitted an average amount of CO2.
The benefit from the reduction in CO2 emissions (from average to 0) is already worth more than 75€ so the state is getting a bargain. Imagine that for every 1€ you spend someone else spends 1000€ in reducing their CO2 emissions. Where else can you get a 100000% ROI on this planet?
Of course this is where that fictional scenario breaks down. Those people are the exception. There are maybe 100000 of them in Germany. The vast majority of people that receive money back are going to be average people who emitted an average amount of CO2.