Bourgeois environmentalism

Electric cars will cut pollution and gasoline imports, but the other deeper problems will remain.

Last July, as the pandemic raged, the government unveiled a budget retracting the low tax enjoyed by electric cars. Note that this did not apply to electric buses. Environmentalists, planners, economists, public intellects and parliamentarians decried the tax hike criticising the government for ignoring the city’s air pollution. Almost all national media, from headlines to editorials, made the tax hike a major issue. Last month, the