In my neighborhood, I often see parcel delivery trucks from 5 different transport companies wasting energy to drive to the same homes on the same day.
This is unregulated capitalism.
Then comes trash day, and 1 company arrives with 1 garbage truck and empties all the trash cans in 1 go.
This is regulated capitalism.
The municipality decided only 1 company could win the garbage truck service job. They offer up the job every couple of years, 1 company wins, and we all save CO2 emissions.
@randahl I recently said the same thing — while we were in the midst of a postal strike… which was co-incident with a factory manufacturing electric delivery vehicles suspending manufacturing…
Regulate and unionize all delivery drivers, then mandate EV’s to keep the plant running… raise the standard of living for delivery drivers, minimize emissions from 5x old diesel trucks all criss-crossing the same neighbourhood and idling, support electrification, and keep manufacturing jobs going.
Nope, we’ve got to make everything worse, for everyone, everywhere.
Randahl Fink
Justin Derrick