I say this as someone who would be significantly effected by this.
We’re all dependent on this fragile fishbowl from one moment to the next, but by all means, lets make it as easy as possible to strain that shared habitat harder and harder and hope some other generations have to deal with the externalities.
This is discounting ice water on the Titanic. That said, sometimes I forget who we are, so glug glug glug lets burn this fucker down I guess, and fuck electrics! They’re slightly less convenient to power than fossil fuel vehicles, and that’s all that matters.
That’s just going to harm people at the bottom in both the short and long term. Wealthier people can pay the inflated prices. Lining the pockets of oil company executives isn’t going to bring about sustainable policies with regards to climate change. It’s just going to be yet another grift on the working class like all the others.
That’s all true, and the reality is there is no solution that averts mass unnecessary suffering, because the fact is, the wealth class can do a lot of things to help and bear a lot of brunts of problems they themselves created on our backs, but use their power to assure they never will. Kind of the point of capitalism. They have all the power and none of the accountability, and only care about the future if it’s a fiscal quarter in front of their face.
They will maximize profit until the last sucker drops dead or says no with no subsistence opiates left to lose. If that means enjoy the cheap gas in these waning days of willful denial, I guess that’s better than nothing.
I disagree. Gas prices affect the working poor in a significant way. People with money like to removed about gas prices, but it doesn’t really affect them. We need to push renewables while still keeping gas affordable in my opinion (and I fucking hate the gas companies).
High gas prices should get higher.
I say this as someone who would be significantly effected by this.
We’re all dependent on this fragile fishbowl from one moment to the next, but by all means, lets make it as easy as possible to strain that shared habitat harder and harder and hope some other generations have to deal with the externalities.
This is discounting ice water on the Titanic. That said, sometimes I forget who we are, so glug glug glug lets burn this fucker down I guess, and fuck electrics! They’re slightly less convenient to power than fossil fuel vehicles, and that’s all that matters.
That’s just going to harm people at the bottom in both the short and long term. Wealthier people can pay the inflated prices. Lining the pockets of oil company executives isn’t going to bring about sustainable policies with regards to climate change. It’s just going to be yet another grift on the working class like all the others.
That’s all true, and the reality is there is no solution that averts mass unnecessary suffering, because the fact is, the wealth class can do a lot of things to help and bear a lot of brunts of problems they themselves created on our backs, but use their power to assure they never will. Kind of the point of capitalism. They have all the power and none of the accountability, and only care about the future if it’s a fiscal quarter in front of their face.
They will maximize profit until the last sucker drops dead or says no with no subsistence opiates left to lose. If that means enjoy the cheap gas in these waning days of willful denial, I guess that’s better than nothing.
I disagree. Gas prices affect the working poor in a significant way. People with money like to removed about gas prices, but it doesn’t really affect them. We need to push renewables while still keeping gas affordable in my opinion (and I fucking hate the gas companies).