At 01:47 PM 7/17/01 +0100 Andrew Crystall wrote:
>True. What WE suggest is that legislation forces car
>manufacturers, from, say 6 months time to use Fuel Cells, NOT
>conventional engines in all their cars.
Sure, and the price of cars increases by 50%, with less size, power, and
speed.
Millions of poor people are left stranded, as they no longer have access to
the nation's transportation networks. The spending income income of tens
of millions of lower middle class families is greatly reduced as they are
forced to pay a much larger fraction of their income on cars. Living
standards decline.
>So new cars cost a bit more...people WILL accept that, and the
>befefits will filter down through the years as a greater and greater
>percentage HAVE fuel cells..
Yeah, the cars will cost more - and that money WILL come from some people.
Namely, that money will come in the name of making us all poorer. And as
we all get poorer, we spend less, and companies lay people off. And when
people get laid off, we can just take a little bet about how much all those
people will care about environmental damage when they don't have a job.
JDG
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