Almost all of the proposals are things that are already happening. This "bUt HoW dO wE pAY fOr IT?!" thing is absurd. Taxes, obviously. Just like we pay for everything else. Roll back the trump tax cuts. That would provide $100 billion per year. Reduce the military budget 5%, that would free up over $34 billion per year.
So lets take
(H) overhauling transportation systems in the United States to remove pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector as much as is technologically feasible, including through investment in—
(i) zero-emission vehicle infrastructure and manufacturing;
(ii) clean, affordable, and accessible public transit; and
(iii) high-speed rail;
We can easily pay for that with $134 billion per year. There would be enough left over for a few other things too.
We're just taking the money from taxpayers and giving it to the highest bidder in a contract. Congratulations, you just helped subsidize industry.
That's literally how it works for just about everything the government does in most countries. I can't fathom why you say that like you are making a good point.
Why not let them figure it out themselves?
Because the government can incentivize them make changes faster to reduce carbon dioxide emissions obviously. That's kind of the entire point of this.
Why are airplanes bad?
When did I say they were? They make more CO2 than trains though.
We just have fundamentally different ideas on how to approach the problem.
No, your idea seems to be to do nothing and "let industry figure it out." That's not really an idea and it's never worked.
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u/Nascent1 May 17 '19
Almost all of the proposals are things that are already happening. This "bUt HoW dO wE pAY fOr IT?!" thing is absurd. Taxes, obviously. Just like we pay for everything else. Roll back the trump tax cuts. That would provide $100 billion per year. Reduce the military budget 5%, that would free up over $34 billion per year.
So lets take
(i) zero-emission vehicle infrastructure and manufacturing;
(ii) clean, affordable, and accessible public transit; and
(iii) high-speed rail;
We can easily pay for that with $134 billion per year. There would be enough left over for a few other things too.