They'll also bear the brunt of the effects of global warming, and those will be worse.
We should try to make environmental programs as equitable as possible. But first and foremost we need to do them!
I see a lot of virtue signaling out there.
Most of us can't afford a electric vechicle, and those federal credits seemed to just go to people whom could afford any vechicle.
I can't even afford the smog check, and registration, on my 4 banger toyota. A Truck I've keep going 20 years. It uses very little gas. (My vechicle has always been tuned up properly. I thought by now we would have had free smog checks for the poor? In CA we have a low income deal that was enacted when CA decided to require smog checks. It's so complicated most people don't use the "gift". You need to bring your car to a mechanic in order to get any money back. Shade Tree mechanics are out of luck.
My point is the corporations/government will pass any Global Warning measures down to us.
We are already tapped out.
If we are really serious about Global Warming lets go after the wealthy boys first. Take away their private jets.
And enough with their Globalization. If they can make a product that dosen't need to be shipped long distances, have them make it here.
I'm a Democrat, and winced when Biden pretty much gave a FY to the oil companies in order to sound Progressive. I knew at the time, the poor can't afford to pay more for gas, and natural gas.
Now--I don't blame the president for this spike in gas prices, but I would have rather have him say this is a big problem, and we can't just do away with oil.
Be it my PG&E bill that just seems to go up, and the $6.69 gas at my Chevron station, the poor are already paying to much of their income on a complex problem. (My gas station raised their prices the minute they started talking about inflation, and the Russia sanctions. It is pure greed. They made a record profits in the past few years.
Sorry about my rant. I just don't like being squeezed so much, while my wealthy neighbors buy crap from Amazon, and think they are doing their part by driving a Tesla.
So, fear not, a couple more years and you will be smog exempt.
While I'm on my soap box; Neusome (a guy I went to high school with (Redwood, and voted most Fashionable, a liberal Marin county boy) has a bill on his desk that would do away with fees associated with Parking Tickets. As of today, he has not signed off on it. The only reason I can think of is he's getting more middle of the road for a run at the big office?
These extra fees and fines are not fair to the poor. A parking ticket in SF is running $80 bucks without fines. $5-6 an hour if you find the right spot. Neusome knows this personally.
He barely graduated from Redwood High School, and dropped out of college due to some nebulous learning disability. He opened some coke dens in SF, and a few Bootjack liquor stores with family money. The SF bars went up in flames because they were poorly managed. Oh yea, his cousin Brendan has a DUI that disappeared? I might write a book on this guy one day. While I seem pissed, he's better than the alternatives.
If he wasn't born wealthy, he would be in the Embarcadero in SF with a needle stuck in his arm.
Government will pass climate change measures on to those that squeal the quietest.
Globalization is not the cause of climate change, it's a natural effect of economics as our technology and capabilities improve.
No one is saying to do away with oil, but that also means that oil companies don't have a social license to extract excessive profit. So tax them.