Re:To avoid Finland’s tax a 1,000HP imported Hennessey RAM i...
by deelowe on Saturday March 12, 2022 @12:44AM
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Fair enough maybe not nothing, but very little. As someone who lives a rural lifestyle and uses my truck (along with literally everyone else I know), it's a bit infuriating that we get picked on for ruining the planet. Switching from a truck to a car isn't really going to do much to address global warming. I also wonder how many folks on this site realize just how good of gas mileage "giant" trucks actually get these days.
Re:To avoid Finland’s tax a 1,000HP imported Hennessey RAM i...
by eru on Saturday March 12, 2022 @10:52PM
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That's why I'm in favour of something simple like a carbon tax to sort this out.
No need for any politicized discussions about lifestyles that way.
(If other countries don't follow suit with the carbon tax, just do adjustments at the border like what countries do for VAT. That'll automatically also do the right thing for the other countries that do also have a carbon tax.)
Not sure what you mean, there's plenty of regulation on those. Eg most of the world has just recently gotten much stricter about what fuels you can burn in ocean going vessels. Though maybe not as much regulation as you want? Or the wrong kind?
In any case, I mostly agree with you. And regulation shouldn't focus on micro-managing individual people or even individual industries: just tax emissions, and let people sort it out according to their own preferences.