| First Name | Matt |
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| Last Name | Smith |
| Email Address | falcon4+carb@gmail.com |
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| Subject | Not far enough, fast enough, but a good kick in the behind |
| Comment | It very much seems like companies won't do the right thing unless forced to. If using clean energy costs $0.01 more than burning coal, the board of directors will say "nah, burn coal", completely self-focused, without any shred of consciousness aside from the bottom line. Some people are so selfish they don't even see an issue in the preceding statement. Local running trucks, like garbage collection, should have been electric years ago. Their job is constant start and stop, and would be orders of magnitude more efficient and cheaper to operate, less obnoxiously noisy, if they were electric. But we can't even get trucks with white-noise backup alarms, probably because "bottom line". In the past 10 years, mostly driven by one company, the EV industry has advanced from a pieced-together electric sports car in 2010, to a selection of mass-produced, practical, reliable, and affordable electric cars today. Just ten years. Having a target goal of 2033 seems like giving up. Maybe the industry disruption will finally take place in that time and the rules won't even come into play. Hopefully this is the kick needed to set this change in motion. |
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| Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2020-05-27 10:29:20 |
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