https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/he-knows-its-crazy-but-this-seattle-guy-is-pushing-a-total-ban-on-gas-cars/
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Seattle lawyer Matthew Metz sat in his office Friday morning, clicking
through hundreds of online comments indirectly calling him, or his
ideas, loony, “moonbatty” and commie-style meddling in the American way.
“I’d say the reaction is about 99.9 percent negative,” he said
cheerfully. “But people will get over it.”
...
Metz, 51, is a high-end tort lawyer with an office on the 71st floor of
Seattle’s Columbia Center. He’s racked up enough contingency fees,
including from a recent $12 million judgment in a Canadian embezzlement
case, that he decided he could ease out of lawyering and go all-in on a
little side project.
...
He jumped on the idea of phasing out combustion-engine cars because
countries like England, India and China have been contemplating it. Then
this summer, Volvo announced it was going to “end the solely
combustion-engine-powered car” by 2019. Some Volvos will be hybrids,
while others will be all-electric.
“I realized the technology is already there — it’s already happening,”
Metz said. “So why aren’t we embracing it? It seemed like we maybe
needed a nudge.”
...
But think of other issues where the initial gut reaction was: “That’s
crazy!” Gays getting married. Corner pot stores. Fifteen-dollar-an-hour
minimum wage. All were seen as politically impossible, even ludicrous.
Until suddenly they weren’t.
“I embrace that quote that we overestimate what we can accomplish in a
year, but we underestimate what we can do in 10,” Metz said.
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