Okay

a solution to which problem ? lol

The solution to the minimum wage problem is not too raise minimum wages endlessly (and often fecklessly), but to develop alternatives to gasoline and deisel fuels for automotive use.

Happy now?

I'm afraid i don't understand

the solution to the minimum wage problem is to change nothing except use electric cars instead of what we're using now?

... ¿Did I say *anything* about electric?

No, but that's the alternative we've got

which alternative would you like? Hydrogen?

If not hydrogen then which one would you prefer?

And how does using alternative fuels for automobiles remove the need for minimum wage or UBI?

I wish I could post pics

But minus the meme....my answer is working on battery tech

The solution to minimum wage is to abolish the minimum wage, heavily restrict immigration, repatriate all illegals and encourage people to live near their extended families.

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I don't see how alternative fuels for automobiles fixes anything other than temporarily making it a little cheaper to fuel your vehicle and/or reduce climate change etc.

But I'd like to hear his explanation

I don't know which problem he thinks "alternatives to gasoline" are a solution to

We have diesel, electric, and hydrogen cars already

If we could convince 80-90% of women to leave the workforce and also stop the flood of immigration then wages would rise naturally back to the point that a single middle-class income would comfortably support a family. Then we could tackle the housing prices with a *severe* property tax on foreign landholders. Then we'd be in a position to start discussing government action on fuel alternatives, which is not really a problem in the US because we are a fuel exporter.

But I too would like to hear what this magical solution looks like.

One way to reduce our fuel usage/automobile outputs is to tax people that live far from their place of work.

I've got way to many coworkers with "Keep tahoe blue" stickers and green new deal garbage that commute 1.5 hours *each way* to work in their oh so efficient Hybrids. Meanwhile i drive my 1963 ford 1 mile (EDIT: 1 mile to work from my house) and use 10% the amount of fuel they do each week.

But it's hardly a large problem, automobile exhaust.

A *much* easier way to accomplish the same goal is just to tax the fuel more heavily.

That will naturally incentivize people to drive less.

doesnt seem to work in california

people are driving farther and farther because houses in center of the cities are millions of dollars

1000sq ft house is a million dollars so they commute 1.5 hours to live in a 1000sq ft house that costs $350,000

It would eventually. But I try not to use California as an example of anything because they are halfway to communism and their markets are totally fucked.

Yea true it's a horrible example

^That's where my punitive taxes on foreign landholders come in.

I don't think "tax the gas" is automatically the solution to reduce gas usage though

Personally i think getting penalized for driving 1.5 hours to work would be successful

Force them to sell and the prices will drop.

There is a whole constellation of policies that have been working over 60-plus years that have made our societies far too addicted to driving long distances.

Suburban mono-zoning for instance

I don't think people in Billings should be penalized like people living near NYC or LA or The Bay Area though lol

The Federal gov doesn't need to be involved at all.

The type of people that commute 1.5 hours each way are also the type of people to not realize their fuel bill each month is over $400, they're hard to help

no common sense

Montana by and for Montanans, California by and for Californians

Definitely