Re:Heavy electric trucks cheaper than diesel goods trucks
by imtringued on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @05:50AM
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How is it lower hanging fruit? If people move out into the country, then non-food goods will have to be transported to them instead. You're just swapping one problem for another.
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Re:Heavy electric trucks cheaper than diesel goods trucks
by baremetal on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @08:32AM
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You can grow surplus food in the yard of a single family dwelling. No one has to move anywhere.
Re:Heavy electric trucks cheaper than diesel goods trucks
by ryan_lane on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @01:38AM
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This is like suggesting the solution to plastic pollution is recycling and reduction by individuals. You can't regulate your way to changing people's behavior, but you can regulate away the source of the problem.
Individual action isn't the solution to a systemic problem, because there's more incentive to cause the problem than to fix it. Individual action requires time, money and effort on behalf of the individual, whereas the ones causing the problem have financial incentive to continue causing it, in greater amounts.