• Taldan@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I don’t understand the purpose of so many restrictive policies. Very overbearing to have a government like that

  • Rusticus@lemmy.world
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    This is simply a fuck you to the rest of the world. “We care so little about climate change that we’re going to intentionally make it worse”

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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    HB 1217 also prevents local governments from purchasing items such as vehicles or appliances based on the fuels they use

    Technically this allows for malicious compliance “actually we wanted to buy a gas powered engine but the law didn’t allow us to specify the fuel”

    • Karjalan@lemmy.world
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      I mean… EVs don’t use fuel?

      All in all, wtf is even the point of this? You have to assume some fuel people gave him money.

  • Loce@lemmy.world
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    I mean… Sooner or later cat 5 will struck again, they don’t seem to give a shit…

  • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
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    Making it illegal to be efficient. Perfect example of why the US is too dumb to continue to exist.

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      4 days ago

      Namely the Republican party. Their opponents have problems too but let’s be honest here, things would start looking a lot better.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    America and their governments get dumber by the minute. It is amazing how much stupidity one can cast into a law, being blinded by ideology (or better, idiocity).

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    Makes no fucking sense. Also this lame ass “government” shouldn’t be even allowed to dictate this shit to businesses.

    All I can think of is coal lobbyists paying for this shit to happen. Fuck you all; wish you the worst.

  • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    5 days ago

    From the bill:

    “Net zero policy” means any policy, program, or initiative designed to achieve a balance between total amount of greenhouse gas emitted into the atmosphere with an equal amount removed from the atmosphere.

    It really is the exact sort of dumb you can weasel out of. “Our program seeks to be carbon negative” is not net-zero, nor is just setting one of the intermediate goal points as the goal (e.g., instead of net-zero by 2050, 50% reduction by 2035). There are some specific restrictions about cap and trade policies and taxes based on carbon content though, so it’s not just the net-zero restriction.