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A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen

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1321 points kwindla | 1 comments | 25 Apr 25 15:01 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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aidenn0 ◴[25 Apr 25 16:56 UTC] No.43795946[source]▶
For anyone curious, if you made a similarly sized gas-powered pickup with an i4 engine, it would be penalized more than a full-sized pickup for being too fuel inefficient, despite likely getting much better mileage than an F-150 because, since 2011, bigger cars are held to a lesser standard by CAFE[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy...

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MostlyStable ◴[25 Apr 25 17:26 UTC] No.43796306[source]▶
Example #5621 that a simple carbon tax would be miles better than the complex morass of regulations we currently have.
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guywithahat ◴[25 Apr 25 20:21 UTC] No.43798144[source]▶
I don’t think it would be possible to produce a carbon tax that’s simple
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patmcc ◴[25 Apr 25 20:38 UTC] No.43798284[source]▶
Tax the fuel. Gasoline now has a $X/gallon tax, as does propane, as does coal, whatever.

What is the difficulty with that?

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kasey_junk ◴[25 Apr 25 20:45 UTC] No.43798346[source]▶
It’s extremely regressive. You’d need to also give a rebate based on income level.
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1. patmcc ◴[25 Apr 25 23:06 UTC] No.43799315{3}[source]▶
Give everybody $1000 (or whatever) to offset that. Ends up being neutral for some folks, a net benefit to the poor, and a net cost to the rich. This is already how lots of jurisdictions handle regressive taxes.