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Originally Posted by HunterICX
[...]salaries should go up to compensate for the inflation and increase in taxes or just inflation if they reduced the tax burden.
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Right, however raising loans will directly put pressure on business and companies, and you know how well such "socialist" ideas are received
B.t.w. the increasing of prices/adjusting of loans which lead to inflation is the real driver why any currency must fail at some point.
OT regarding Paris:
Regarding electric cars.. i am not a fan of that either, at least not now.
(I had a car with an engine using 'canola' (rape seed oil) instead of Diesel. The car was from 1986, weighed around 1,2 tons, did a hundred mph and was able to go 78,4 miles per gallon. Nowadays you have cars with a similar usability transport-wise, but needing a lot more fuel. They are more heavy, have ABS, airbag and all that of course. The engine and mpg seem not to matter anymore, they all have at least a hundred hp. Is that really needed to get one person to work. We see those 400 hp SUV monsters with a woman driving her kid to the Kindergarten. I think this is ridiculous.)
It is not only the batteries, which pollute the environment during production, and 'recycling'. It is the whole process of its life cycle, along with heavy line loss from plant to charging, and the charging itself also uses loses a lot of energy. Not to forget the energy has to be produced somewhere.. nuclear? Coal?
Looking at overall energy bilancing the electric car cannot compete with small individual combustion engines yet. Not at the technological level we are now. As you said, the foreign pollution regarding rare earths and waste sent back also have to be taken into account.