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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
In theory, that's at least 15 million tons of CO2.
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Given Canada's emissions are around 729 million tons, sure it would be good to reduce emissions from buses, but there are a lot of reasons why you wouldn't preference it.
As before: it is going to happen on its own due to good economics, and it is a one and done with technology on the mature side of the curve.
Where you want government investment, either where it is cheapest, or where the potential to drive down costs are enormous and maturing a technology will move it closer to being economic so that a large sector can adopt it and reduce emissions without direct support.
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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
I would honestly love to see better ideas for the $2-4 billion. There's only so many landfills that you can install methane traps on.
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Yes. Which is why programs like the Low Carbon Economy Fund was/is open to all sorts, government or not. The atmosphere does not care where emissions come from. And it is better for everyone to reduce emissions in the lowest cost way. One of the chief benefits from the program isn't actually the reductions (though it is a benefit!), it is the government received all sorts of information about what business and government across the entire country thought reducing emissions would cost them, and how they would do it.
This is not to say that transit isn't great, don't get me wrong. Just that transit is not a climate panacea.