Yeah but nobody retired a marginally profitable fuel refinery that became unprofitable during covid because they knew demand would return soon. The effect isn't instantaneous, but all the infrastructure has operation and maintenance costs. With fewer overall consumers all the overhead has to go somewhere eventually.
The actual fine is total revenue + 100k(roughly another 10%). That seems pitifully low for knowingly and intentionally lying about something people trust their lives to.
To his credit SpaceX was at least a correct recognition that the dominant space launch companies were just a cartel milking federal funding for as much as possible. That sector is so stagnant that ULA still hasn't blinked at the massive success of first stage reusability.
I'm not convinced there are many goods like that. Lower carbon alternatives exist for most consumer products. But the data also does show that Australian co2 emissions dropped when they had a carbon tax and went back up when they got rid of it. I imagine the right wing Abbot government had more reasons for getting rid of it than just being ineffective.
That just sounds like a carbon tax working as expected. Yeah the cost of buying carbon intensive stuff goes up, that's kinda the point, de-externalizing the cost of carbon emissions.
What, the consumption of planting trees? It's a flawed implementation not a flawed concept. It still functions like a carbon tax but they subsidized a failed tree planting campaign instead of building solar farms or something.
Except the US Airforce uses it as a gender neutral title, which is extremely relevant when the subtext is you're talking about whether you're misgendering an almost certainly closeted trans person by calling them "airman".
I should have said "as a title used by the airforce" but I figured that was implied.
It's just more the same small-picture 'environmentalism' that lead to Germany shutting down nuclear in favor of more coal and gas. Slowing down the switch from gas to electric cars to save <1% of 1 new growth forest is dumb as hell.
Those weren't even PV panels it was just a solar water heater. *woops, had this comment open long enough while I double checked that that somebody beat me to it
You're not going to shame me into voting for the guy arming a genocide lol. If the centrist dems don't like losing votes from the left they should stop choosing unviable candidates in the primary.
But even ignoring any long term goals to drag the democrats left kicking and screaming I'm just not going to vote for a guy that armed a genocide. Not holding my nose for that.
That's what the majority of (sedans masquerading as) trucks are used for anyway.