Hacker News Reader

>How can a vehicle be "zero emission" anyway, unless the entire production and supply chain is also zero emission.

Yeah, its almost like this is one step in a long, complicated process of getting the world off of fossil fuels, or something?

Tesla's production is quite clean.

Anyway, an electric car can run off of pretty much any energy source. It's much more expensive to make gasoline from sunlight or nuclear power than charging a battery.

(And, if you're wondering, yes, making gasoline from sunlight (biofuels) is a thing, and no, it isn't practical, and yes, people DO try.)

Agreed. We should definitely not try to make progress incrementally. It should all happen in one big chunk or not at all.

I guess we shouldn't do anything at all, as long as there's a pedantic way to dismiss the idea.

As has already been acknowledged in other comments, this is basically asking to be overturned before 2035. If you really mean it -- i.e. you're not just doing it for some kind of brownie points while never needing to show anything for it -- why not set a much sooner date and be the one that actually implements it?