Everyone*

Including me brah.

#focus

Everyone*

Including me brah. 

#focus

Please explain how higher prices (i.e. cost of fuel PLUS higher taxes) fix climate change if there are people like you content to pay the high prices rather than afford a vehicle that runs on alternative fuels?

Unless you're willing to junk your gas vehicle and either buy something more "green" OR only use public transportation, a bicycle and your feet, then the higher prices did not have the behavioral modification effect as intended.

You just don't see how you are killing the planet (according to the Climate Change "experts") for your own personal convenience and financial priorities.  If choosing to live where you do eliminated your dependence on driving, you'd have junked your gas vehicle when you started living there.  I say junked -- not sold -- because that car can't be allowed to be on the streets and driven by another.

Please explain how higher prices (i.e. cost of fuel PLUS higher taxes) fix climate change if there are people like you content to pay the high prices rather than afford a vehicle that runs on alternative fuels?

Unless you're willing to junk your gas vehicle and either buy something more "green" OR only use public transportation, a bicycle and your feet, then the higher prices did not have the behavioral modification effect as intended.

You just don't see how you are killing the planet (according to the Climate Change "experts") for your own personal convenience and financial priorities.  If choosing to live where you do eliminated your dependence on driving, you'd have junked your gas vehicle when you started living there.  I say junked -- not sold -- because that car can't be allowed to be on the streets and driven by another.

Please explain how higher prices (i.e. cost of fuel PLUS higher taxes) fix climate change if there are people like you content to pay the high prices rather than afford a vehicle that runs on alternative fuels?

Unless you're willing to junk your gas vehicle and either buy something more "green" OR only use public transportation, a bicycle and your feet, then the higher prices did not have the behavioral modification effect as intended.

You just don't see how you are killing the planet (according to the Climate Change "experts") for your own personal convenience and financial priorities.  If choosing to live where you do eliminated your dependence on driving, you'd have junked your gas vehicle when you started living there.  I say junked -- not sold -- because that car can't be allowed to be on the streets and driven by another.

"I say junked -- not sold -- because that car can't be allowed to be on the streets and driven by another."
Good one!
However,  I just registered a SUV with a Hawaii "Junked" title,  in the state of Vermont.  So I can now put it back on the road,
get insurance, safety sticker, and possibly Hawaii registration( there are some pesky administrative details to deal with).   
When you say "Junked" you mean destroyed.

Please explain how higher prices (i.e. cost of fuel PLUS higher taxes) fix climate change if there are people like you content to pay the high prices rather than afford a vehicle that runs on alternative fuels?

Unless you're willing to junk your gas vehicle and either buy something more "green" OR only use public transportation, a bicycle and your feet, then the higher prices did not have the behavioral modification effect as intended.

You just don't see how you are killing the planet (according to the Climate Change "experts") for your own personal convenience and financial priorities.  If choosing to live where you do eliminated your dependence on driving, you'd have junked your gas vehicle when you started living there.  I say junked -- not sold -- because that car can't be allowed to be on the streets and driven by another.

Not to split hairs, but in Hawaii, a car that was totaled (damage would cost more to fix than the car is worth AND has damage to its supporting structure, external frame, and/or suspension system) is issued a "salvage" title.  "Junked" means the car was sold or donated for scrap.  In both situations, the car is issued a salvaged vehicle title.

Once a salvaged vehicle has been repaired and inspected by a certified agent, you then refer to it as a "rebuilt salvaged vehicle," according to Hawaii Statute SB324.  Lots of cars in Hawaii have been totaled by insurance companies and auctioned off to people who then repair them for resale.

While it's possible to get insurance here on a rebuilt salvaged car, you may find that your insurance company only offers liability -- not collision.  They don't want to pay claims for damages to YOUR car knowing it was totaled before.

https://www.dmv.org/hi-hawaii/salvaged-vehicles.php

https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2004/bills/SB324_.htm

My behavior is already modified. I bought a place in town so don't need to travel.  Walk most places.  My car is low miles travel very little.   If the prices get high enough with rebates I'll trade my car for electric.

So, if we all started driving "very little," do you think that would fix climate change?  Or is that something that only YOU get to choose while the rest of us must be forced out of our gas burners?

Al Gore admitted in an interview that if the US did everything the Paris Climate Accord requires, it would not fix Climate Change over the next 100 years.  So what's the point?

It's easy for you to pretend you'll finally trade your car if prices get high enough.  I guess the climate change emergency isn't that big a deal.

Why must it be an all or nothing for you?

people need to realize this:
https://www.topspeed.com/cars/warp-coils-seem-closer-to-reality-than-a-battery-with-energy-density-of-gasoline-ar185365.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

"Gasoline energy density is 47.5 MJ/kg and 34.6 MJ/liter; the gasoline in a fully fueled car has the same energy content as a thousand sticks of dynamite. A lithium-ion battery pack has about 0.3 MJ/kg and about 0.4 MJ/liter (Chevy VOLT). Gasoline thus has about 100 times the energy density of a lithium-ion battery. This difference in energy density is partially mitigated by the very high efficiency of an electric motor in converting the energy stored in the battery to making the car move: it is typically 60-80 percent efficient. The efficiency of an internal combustion engine in converting the energy stored in gasoline to making the car move is typically 15 percent (EPA 2012). With the ratio about 5, a battery with an energy storage density 1/5 of that of gasoline would have the same range as a gasoline-powered car."