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

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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.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Demand side policy alone is always just either a failure or creates perverse incentives.

    You should check out the entire car-dependent dystopia sometime. Cars are totally subsidized and literally destroying the planet while people complain about coupons for bikes.

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      You won’t find me arguing against that. That’s a case of supply side incentives against the wrong thing. That was kind of my point. We’re doing dumb liberal things like rebates for what’s good and actual industrial policy for what destroys us.