They couldn’t have made the mandate hybrid cars? They had to go to 100% electric?
The amount of infrastructure required for this is fucking impossible to do within 10 years. Anyone saying “they build gas stations all the time” doesn’t seem to understand that a gas station consists of a few tanks and a few pumps and nothing else. For electric on this scale, they have to run new electric lines, build many more power plants/upgrade existing plants, create new power stations, and they had better also standardize EV chargers real fast.
Our power grid already blacks out in the summer because of everyone’s air conditioning, I don’t think having everyone plugging a car into it will do a lot of good in that regard.
Oil and gas sucks but it also contributes something like $105 billion dollars to the countries GDP per year, and with the current economic problems I don’t know if this was the best time to do this. This is particularly going to fuck up Alberta/Newfoundland and Labrador as their GDP is like 20% oil and gas alone.
If China or the US did this, then it might be worth it considering the relativity of carbon emissions, but here, all this is going to to is completely fuck anyone who isn’t already rich and/or in a city.
None of the big carbon emission players of the world are going to follow this example, it’s not going to do anything to save the environment on a global scale, and its going to cost us endless amounts of money.
Zero emissions is unlikely at best. Every time a tire rolls there is a transfer of matter. This is 100% impossible. However if private transport were outlawed we could get close enough that most of us could continue to survive a while longer.
So get fucked if you are poor as per usual
Lololol good luck with that. Every country is going to back pedal this shit. PHEV is going to be the short term solution. People don’t want to spend more on cars that have to charge.
too little too late, as usual
