Lester Golden
2 min readSep 14, 2023

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You didn't answer the "enforced by whom?" question. And how enforced? The police? the military? With what legislation? Martial law shutting down airports, autoroutes/autobahns?

Ban low salaried people who can't afford EVs from using their legacy ICE cars to get to work from locations where there's no or inadequate public transport? If you think the French Gillets Jaunes made a ruckus, just wait until you try it in Nebraska and Utah.

There are 3 ways to impose change on people:

1. From above with state regulation and/or terror (in the West the former, in Russia and China the latter).

2. From below with market incentives.

3. A combination of 1 and 2.

#1 example: Invoke the Defense Production Act of 1950 to order fossil fuel companies to pivot to renewables as fast as technically feasible by giving them a guaranteed return on their investment from turning the federal government into their guaranteed buyer. This was how the USA produced 400000 aircraft, 100 aircraft carriers and millions of jeeps and Studebaker trucks for the Red Army in WWII.

Until you have a detailed Manhattan Project or WWII War Production Board type road map for getting from here to there and understand how economies and legal systems actually work, you'll go nowhere.

Here's one recent example:

"Today A.P. Moller - Maersk launched its first ship operated on bio-methanol derived from biogas. Shortly it will start to operate on e-methanol derived from wind and biogenic CO2.

To everyone at Maersk, thank you for taking the lead in decarbonising the shipping industry and congratulations on this historical day when a giant step is taken towards a greener future!

Some of the many challenges for the shipping industry will be, as is also expressed by Maersk, to get enough methanol - and biogenic CO2 - at the right price.

At Blue World Technologies, we strive to be a part of the solution by offering not only a substantial reduction of fuel consumption but also an extremely cost-effective solution to CO2 recycling thereby reducing the need for biogenic CO2 resources.

Our vision is to provide methanol fuel cell systems enabling the shipping industry to go for zero-emission at zero green premium before 2035!

#AllTheWayToZero 🛳"

I have no connection to BWT.

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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