Taking China's population into account, their CO2 output is still lower than the US. Also, they do use EV's. Lots of them, very small, very light vehicles for small journeys around the local area.
America has problem in that much of it has been planned around the car, endless cheap fuel, and hundred mile daily commutes.
Policies take place on a nation-state level. I think most people are fine with anyone using EVs or lowering their personal carbon output if they want to. But no environmental policy the federal government encourages or regulates here will have any affect on the planet because there's so many people in China.
Taking China's population into account, their CO2 output is still lower than the US.
By that logic, the United States can invade and annex some poorshit countries with super low CO2 per capita and then use those populations to dilute our stats and declare our per capita numbers to be super low.
China is 2 countries. One is a highly developed industrial country roughly on the level of Taiwan, the other is poorshit villagers in mud huts.
You can't excuse 1 because it gets diluted by 2.
they do use EV's.
Still an insignificant fraction of their total number of vehicles.
America has problem in that much of it has been planned around the car, endless cheap fuel, and hundred mile daily commutes.
not a problem, commie
very few people do long commutes as a percentage of the population. US average commute time is 27.6 minutes. This is actually artificially high because using public transport - which is included, drives up the times. workers who traveled to work by bus had an average commute of 46.6 minutes. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/one-way-travel-time-to-work-rises.html
Not to be a commie-lover, but...
Taking China's population into account, their CO2 output is still lower than the US. Also, they do use EV's. Lots of them, very small, very light vehicles for small journeys around the local area.
America has problem in that much of it has been planned around the car, endless cheap fuel, and hundred mile daily commutes.
Policies take place on a nation-state level. I think most people are fine with anyone using EVs or lowering their personal carbon output if they want to. But no environmental policy the federal government encourages or regulates here will have any affect on the planet because there's so many people in China.
By that logic, the United States can invade and annex some poorshit countries with super low CO2 per capita and then use those populations to dilute our stats and declare our per capita numbers to be super low.
China is 2 countries. One is a highly developed industrial country roughly on the level of Taiwan, the other is poorshit villagers in mud huts.
You can't excuse 1 because it gets diluted by 2.
Still an insignificant fraction of their total number of vehicles.
not a problem, commie
very few people do long commutes as a percentage of the population. US average commute time is 27.6 minutes. This is actually artificially high because using public transport - which is included, drives up the times. workers who traveled to work by bus had an average commute of 46.6 minutes. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/one-way-travel-time-to-work-rises.html
Annexing poorshit countries built most of the mid-tier economies of today's world. It needs to come back into fashion.