57 Biden ‘Close’ to Declaring ‘Climate Emergency’ to Ration Gas, Electricity, Meat (slaynews.com) posted 1 year ago by N14205ST205 1 year ago by N14205ST205 +60 / -3 Biden 'Close' to Declaring 'Climate Emergency' to Ration Gas, Electricity, Meat - Slay News Joe Biden is "close" to signing an executive order to declare a "climate emergency," granting the Democrat president sweeping new powers to enforce lockdowns and other tyrannical measures in order to "save the planet" from "global warming," a public policy... 54 comments share 54 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Mechanically/technically, how do you limit the amount of meat/gas/whatever that someone buys?
Politically what happens when old people die of heat strike?
I don't see it being feasible even if desired.
Central bank digital currency. Your "money" becomes glorified coupons that the government can turn off at any time.
Nothing, just like COVID patients being stuffed into nursing homes.
You lack imagination.
Agree on central bank digital currency being an effective way, but implementation of that cannot happen quickly.
I think they have to get that piece done before the rest is possible.
Maybe if they did some sort of "optional lockdown" I could see.
You can look into how rationing has worked in the past.
Did people cheat? A shitload.
They did it anyways. It's probably not a good idea, but they did it anyways.
just raise the prices of meat and require ID to purchase it. Then of course it's trivially easy with a CBDC.
The government only has a few ways to raise prices: Taxes Destruction of supply
Neither of these can be implemented quickly.
taxes can be implemented very quickly.