A lot of this is just bad policies, and bad economics. Concepts like carbon taxation were intended to govern inter-country problems and large corporations. Applied to consumers, they often amount to simple regional and income discrimination. Country people drive more because they need to, and "pay up or consume less," applied is both heartless and not very efficient anyway. People drive because they need to, and prices must be exorbitant before these policies can eventually drive out the less fortunate.
I don't think most europeans are that fussy about "how" compared to americans. Car size issues, hybrids or electrics are all fine.
Btw, we should be having more pan-european political discourse. These policies are just bad, and unpopular. The fact that they've been "the gold standard" for so long is 50% lack of a decent feedback loop.
A lot of this is just bad policies, and bad economics. Concepts like carbon taxation were intended to govern inter-country problems and large corporations. Applied to consumers, they often amount to simple regional and income discrimination. Country people drive more because they need to, and "pay up or consume less," applied is both heartless and not very efficient anyway. People drive because they need to, and prices must be exorbitant before these policies can eventually drive out the less fortunate.
I don't think most europeans are that fussy about "how" compared to americans. Car size issues, hybrids or electrics are all fine.
Btw, we should be having more pan-european political discourse. These policies are just bad, and unpopular. The fact that they've been "the gold standard" for so long is 50% lack of a decent feedback loop.