There’s easier, more effective battles to fight. People aren’t giving up their SUV’s, and they are a symptom of a bigger problem anyway.
Good public transportation could eliminate millions of cars, roads, and road maintenance.
A few other ideas:
Coal power is disgusting and doesn’t even make sense economically anymore.
Cruise ships and mega yachts should flat out be banned. They use a ton of energy and dump sewage right into the ocean
Heavily tax gas powered lawnmowers. They have a surprisingly large environmental impact because they have no pollution controls and often burn a mixture of oil and gas.
The increase in SUVs isn’t driven by people’s natural preferences; it’s driven by automakers being incentivized by stupid CAFE standards to push SUVs on them. Those bad regulations are what we need to fix.
Also bunker fuel being burned in ocean shipping. Since there very little regulation they burn some of the worst sulfur-emitting fuel. A single container ship emits the equivalent of something like a few hundred thousand every car on the planet, as I recall
The biggest container ships produce more emissions than every car on the planet. Granted, I think there’s at most a half dozen of those in operation, but that’s still 6x more than every car on Earth.
I remember hearing that during COVID lockdowns the first year, an estimated 50% of cars were off the road and total annual emissions dropped 2%.
There’s easier, more effective battles to fight. People aren’t giving up their SUV’s, and they are a symptom of a bigger problem anyway. Good public transportation could eliminate millions of cars, roads, and road maintenance.
A few other ideas:
The increase in SUVs isn’t driven by people’s natural preferences; it’s driven by automakers being incentivized by stupid CAFE standards to push SUVs on them. Those bad regulations are what we need to fix.
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Also bunker fuel being burned in ocean shipping. Since there very little regulation they burn some of the worst sulfur-emitting fuel. A single container ship emits the equivalent of
something like a few hundred thousandevery car on the planet,as I recallThe biggest container ships produce more emissions than every car on the planet. Granted, I think there’s at most a half dozen of those in operation, but that’s still 6x more than every car on Earth.
I remember hearing that during COVID lockdowns the first year, an estimated 50% of cars were off the road and total annual emissions dropped 2%.