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You could try making the dirty tech economically inferior on its own terms. Then the clean will be adopted with blazing speed. Nobody burns oil and coal because they like the smell.


Lower EV prices to $10k with a 250 miles range and refill time below 10 minutes (pretty much the standard european/asian small car) and I'll buy one right now.

The technology just isn't there currently...


It's rapidly approaching that point already. The problem is politicians and it seems as though we are powerless to change that.


USSR showed that when politicians and economy colide heads on politicians lose. Reality always wins at the end.

Supressing superior technology is extremely hard. If you succeed it is just not superior enough.


People can't claim powerlessness before they even tried. It's an excuse to not even try.


But they might just burn oil and coal to save jobs.




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