Tires, tires, tires!!!

Many of the impacts on our environment from the automobile are never included in the purchase price of a vehicle. This is the way our system works. Huge costs are incurred in many areas and they are never considered. For example gasoline is currently about $1 a liter. The actual cost is over $2 a liter and that price does not include the horrific price that will surely emerge if global heating does what it is forecast to do.

So we need to change the price of things so that we pay the real price and this could only be done by governments. A tax could be applied to make every price more realistic and that tax could be used to pay for the cost of fixing the damage that item caused. Unfortunately governments do not work to protect our environment. On the contrary they actively work to damage the environment and the basic reason for that is that the men, usually men, who run governments are greedy and shortsighted. We will continue to witness less diversity and more environmental degradation until voters choose politicians that demonstrate more wisdom.