There should be some incentive not to drive an F350 to an office job…
I think it should be expensive enough so that at least a median income person making a completely frivolous trip stops for half a second to consider the cost.
I'm sure it's more complicated than that. Lower income folks who have less of a choice, for example. A real policy would take some work.
I would guess that Tesla owning households still have higher than average fossil consumption at present because their higher incomes also positively correlate with flying more and consuming more goods that were at least partially made with fossil fuels. The very poorest people in the US can't afford to drive even a used car.
London realized this as the early efforts to reduce costs for zero-emmission vehicles went to Tesla and BMW owners, not the tiny/cheap electric cars everyone expected to come to market.
"revenue neutral carbon tax where an equal amount of money is rebated to everyone" doesn't sound like it's specific to gas for cars.
> London realized this as the early efforts to reduce costs for zero-emmission vehicles went to Tesla and BMW owners, not the tiny lightweight/cheap electric cars everyone expected to come to market.
Is that bad? Normally those incentives are a fixed amount per car, so in climate improvement per dollar it should be similar or even better for big fancy cars. And anyone that designs a small cheap electric car can still get the incentive, so it's not like those fancy cars are to blame if there's a lack of them. And we are getting more variety as time passes.
If you want to give less money to rich people, don't exclude them from the car incentives, give them an unconditional tax and let them get money back with the car incentives.
Also big cars don't congest much more than small cars, do they? When you take into account the space between vehicles, the difference isn't that great.
(And again if the issue is expensive cars specifically, you don't want a congestion charge or a fuel charge, you want a supercar charge or a high-income charge.)
Also most tools aren't heavy and "odd hours" will decrease your fuel use!
After that we can add a carbon tax to the transportation sector by adding a tariff that scale with carbon pollution.
After that, carbon tax newly built home heating systems.
After that, continue to add new carbon taxes while monitoring who get effect until one can't add more without harming people who has no choice.
Europe is filled with lower and middle income people as well. They don’t take jobs with a 1 hour drive using a truck that gets 13 MPG.
Natural gas predominately displaces coal, so you must really hate the earth.
Same with other classes of vehicles such as VW vans in the passenger version, the 'normal' ones are all diesel, the fleet version tends to be bi-fuel with a relatively small petrol engine and an LNG underbody tank system. This is a popular solution for taxi fleets in Europe.
And as diesel is coming more and more under scrutiny you can expect the LNG/CNG version of these cars to gain in popularity.
A rounding error compared to all the other trucks/vans/commercial vehicles.
Go look for CNG vehicles from pickups and airport vans on up to heavy trucks on the heavy equipment section of CL and machinery trader. You will see how few and far between they are.
Sorry man, but that’s nobody. 5k trucks a year is meaningless when we’re talking about how natural gas prices will effect behaviors.
Thats a pretty big deal.
Not sure about that
and 2x worse https://www.fuelly.com/car/subaru/wrx
I don’t know why there are no diesel-electric trucks. If you need torque, do what trains do.
https://www.fuelly.com/car/ford/f-350_super_duty?engineconfi...
Subaru Outback is about 23 mpg.
https://www.fuelly.com/car/subaru/outback?engineconfig_id=86...
Of course those are self selected samples and not independent tests, but still probably close to what most drivers will see in the real world.
Usually the consumer midsize crossover nets out around 20.