Re:California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain ineff...
by chmod600 on Saturday November 27, 2021 @01:55PM
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"more carbon emissions 'should' be more expensive, and conversely, stuff that caused less carbon emissions 'should' be (relatively) less expensive"
It's not clear that such policies would reduce shipping stuff from 5000 miles away -- except by reducing the total amount of stuff made -- so I don't see a direct connection to the topic of this thread.
Great! Nuclear and wind are both carbon-neutral. I would be very satisfied with that.
> But the concept that stuff from 5000 miles away "should" be more expensive, and that we should make policy based on that assumption, is just ridiculous.
No, that's not the argument I'm making. The argument I'm making is that stuff that has caused more carbon emissions 'should' be more expensive, and conversely, stuff that caused less carbon emissions 'should' be (relatively) less expensive.
How many miles that stuff happened to travel is only material to the discussion insofar as transport tends to cause carbon emissions.