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baggy_trough
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California bans the sale of all small off-road int...
California legislators do not care about the practical details, as long as their abstractions become ever more pure.
quantified
on Nov 7, 2021
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Yeah, practical details are to keep burning all the gas in as dirty a fashion as we have been. Sound like a good idea?
baggy_trough
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It might be, depending on the particular case. For example, generators when the power goes out, as it does all too frequently in places.
quantified
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I’d imagine that these have less overall impact. Along those lines, remote job sites probably need fuel-based energy.
In this case there’s some carbon and a relative lot of pollution going on.
baggy_trough
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Making that kind of tradeoff is something that California legislators seem very bad at.
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