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California’s ambitious statewide electric bicycle incentive program is officially dead – and it didn’t even get a funeral. After years…

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      They’re just complaining incoherently and counter-productively about coupons for bikes. The obfuscatory terminology (eg. demand side policy, perverse incentives) indicates a lib brainwashed by economic pseudo-science. There’s nothing “perverse” about riding bikes and saving the planet. It’s just nonsense econ jargon developed precisely to serve capital/cars. Note the extreme lack of any better idea.

      Bonus boomer points for hating on solar panels.

      • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Lib. Right. Me arguing that direct industry incentives ala China and India to actually solve your problems from a supply side instead of demand side incentives that just enrich middlemen while solving Jack Shit is totally a neolib position, not a materialist heterodox one.