Jonny D
New member
Here's the way our economy works:
You want stuff, people sell it to you.
You and EVERYBODY ELSE want something, and lots of it can be manufactured: it gets sold to you cheap.
You and EVERYBODY ELSE want something, and not much can be manufactured: it gets sold to you expensively.
You don't want stuff: nobody sells it.
Gov tells you you can't have it: you get something as equivalent as you can that you are allowed to have.
Fortunes are made and destroyed by anticipating the needs/ wants of large groups of people.
Legistlation that changes the rules about emissions, even drastically, is going to financially ruin some companies , and it's going to make others very, very rich.
Lets say you're Ford. You're happy that you sell over one million F-150's each year. You're happy that nobody told you your truck needs to get more than X mpg or have Y CO2 emissions., because you don't have to innovate much in 6-8 cyl engines & catalytic converters.
If you're Tesla Motors (teslamotors.com) you've built an electric sports car, but since demand is kind of low, and you're making all of your cars by hand, so their fairly expensive.
The the gov says "TRUCKS must get double the mileage they get now, and half the CO2 emissions. Or you can't sell them"
Ford: Crap, we can't do that. We're toast.
Tesla: "LETS MAKE AN ELECTRIC TRUCK. We're going to make a killing if we can make a truck that will have the range of most normal trucks"
Ford languishes, truck sales slump.
Tesla innovates like crazy, truck sales skyrocket
Ford closes it's truck plant
Tesla makes billions, hires more employees, pays them and they spend money. Economy doesn't suffer.
The "economy is going to suffer" argument is crap. We spend our money on services & goods, and we will continue to spend it on those goods and services.
We're still going to drive cars, they might look different.
We're still going to heat our houses, it just might be from wind & solar power.
We're still going to build houses, they just might be more efficient.
We're still going to work, it just might be with a new skill.
We're still going to ski, it might just be in deeper pow during a longer season (if we do the above).
<flamebait> Sure, the current administration has done a FABULOUS job in it's policies by ignoring international consenus.</flamebait>
You want stuff, people sell it to you.
You and EVERYBODY ELSE want something, and lots of it can be manufactured: it gets sold to you cheap.
You and EVERYBODY ELSE want something, and not much can be manufactured: it gets sold to you expensively.
You don't want stuff: nobody sells it.
Gov tells you you can't have it: you get something as equivalent as you can that you are allowed to have.
Fortunes are made and destroyed by anticipating the needs/ wants of large groups of people.
Legistlation that changes the rules about emissions, even drastically, is going to financially ruin some companies , and it's going to make others very, very rich.
Lets say you're Ford. You're happy that you sell over one million F-150's each year. You're happy that nobody told you your truck needs to get more than X mpg or have Y CO2 emissions., because you don't have to innovate much in 6-8 cyl engines & catalytic converters.
If you're Tesla Motors (teslamotors.com) you've built an electric sports car, but since demand is kind of low, and you're making all of your cars by hand, so their fairly expensive.
The the gov says "TRUCKS must get double the mileage they get now, and half the CO2 emissions. Or you can't sell them"
Ford: Crap, we can't do that. We're toast.
Tesla: "LETS MAKE AN ELECTRIC TRUCK. We're going to make a killing if we can make a truck that will have the range of most normal trucks"
Ford languishes, truck sales slump.
Tesla innovates like crazy, truck sales skyrocket
Ford closes it's truck plant
Tesla makes billions, hires more employees, pays them and they spend money. Economy doesn't suffer.
The "economy is going to suffer" argument is crap. We spend our money on services & goods, and we will continue to spend it on those goods and services.
We're still going to drive cars, they might look different.
We're still going to heat our houses, it just might be from wind & solar power.
We're still going to build houses, they just might be more efficient.
We're still going to work, it just might be with a new skill.
We're still going to ski, it might just be in deeper pow during a longer season (if we do the above).
And I have no desire to cede our sovereignty to a world body out to screw us every chance it has
<flamebait> Sure, the current administration has done a FABULOUS job in it's policies by ignoring international consenus.</flamebait>