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Ethiopia becomes first country to ban internal combustion engines: Only EVs allowed
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I applaud Ethiopia. Why are they the only ones to do so as drastically as we all should be?
Money. It says so in the article. They can't afford to import fossils anymore but they have enough (or will have enough) domestically produced electricity.
Meanwhile the rest of the world is keeping the prices on fossil fuels low through inefficient subsidies worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
Specifically, they are just finishing a rather impressive 5GW hydropower project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ethiopian_Renaissance_Dam
Because a lot of people are „experts“ in how a country should be run. Like we‘re all master soccer trainers when the worldcup starts.
The fact that a country might lose export or gdp numbers due to its drastic clean air measures is like fingers on a chalk board for these people.
The fact that these numbers are meaningless just shows we‘re all brainwashed to be nice little worker bees and care for our masters wealth more than our own air.
Its the same when a person with 30k yearly income says taxing the rich is bad.
Because it's idiocy and it's going to create great hardship for already impoverished people.
Read up on Sri Lanka's big move to being exclusively organic produce. They couldn't afford fertiliser imports so banned all fertiliser and pesticides. It was an unmitigated disaster.
The same is happening here. Their economy is a train wreck, no one will sell them fuel because they don't have any US currency and their own currency could be worthless tomorrow.
This law just makes corrupt border official shenanigans more lucrative. They'll repeal it in 6 months or so when there are riots.