High gas and oil prices may be hard on working class people, and on supply chains, but they’re good for progress on the climate crisis.
I’m optimistic that cheap EVs from BYD, Slate, etc will help both sides of this tradeoff.
Ideally gas and oil prices should increase due to price on carbon regulations, not just macro events like wars or inflation, but I’ll take what I can get.
@snarfed.org I take silver linings wherever I can find them nowadays…
@snarfed.org@fed.brid.gy I thought byd was banned or something in the us for national security or something
@snarfed.org Or will it just lead to people voting for the extreme right? Some Big Mouth will come along and tell them it’s the fault of [insert minority group or foreign nation] and only his party can fix it, and the idiots will vote for them.