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>>11001464

The only way out of this mess is a carbon tax (somewhere around $20 PER GALLON of motor fuels) that would generate the funds necessary to pursue a Manhattan project to decarbonize the planet. Internal combustion engines don't make themselves. Regulations will ensure that the last ICE will be manufactured for commuter vehicles and after which COOOONNNSSUUUMMERS will have no choice.

All the world auto manufacturers already know what is coming and are starting to pull back seeing their subsidies threatened with extinction. Various other uses of ICE in shipping and logistics and specialized forms will continue but there must be a point at which all the fossil fuels, all the coal, all the natural gas which is being used now must be replaced with something else.

And I believe that the fossil fuel end-users should pay the premium. Airline tickets, imported goods, motor fuel, energy production, should be price-adjusted to include ALL the external costs of that pollution PLUS the cost to replace it.

And sure, it would produce economic chaos, but that that species of chaos is mitigatable and survivable, whereas the chaos later will not be.