Global warming

[Galen]

(06-03-2017, 07:39 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(06-03-2017, 12:23 AM)Galen Wrote:

(06-02-2017, 12:46 PM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote:

(06-01-2017, 02:19 PM)Galen Wrote: Funny thing is that large corporations are trying to get Trump to stay in the Paris agreement.  This is yet anther example of established players asking for regulation.  Almost invariably to keep smaller players out and thus reducing competition.

If businesses, whether large or small, cannot do the right thing in regard to protecting the environment on which we all depend, they should not be in business; period. It's usually the big companies, like the car companies now lobbying Trump to repeal car mileage standards, that oppose regulations, while smaller companies like Tesla pioneer green energy.

 
You have pointed out many times that corporations main purpose is profit.  Not something that I would particularly, provided they are getting the money from willing customers and not taxpayers, have a problem with but you do .  So let us look at your example of Elon Musk and Tesla.  It seems that Elon's ventures get a large amounts of government money.  I suspect that if you look into the list of companies in favor of the Paris agreement benefit directly or indirectly while many other businesses will be hurt.

Plenty of economic activities have been profitable. Piracy, slave trafficking, drug dealing, child pornography, gladiatorial games, supplying lions for Roman circuses, transactions in the body parts of endangered creatures, peonage, and outright theft... in such cases profit is a reward for doing great harm.

What I am talking about is the corporations using the power of the state to further their own interests at the expense of others.  No one in their right mind would think that any of the corporations on the list are acting out of altruism but from the fact that they want to profit and lock smaller competitors out of the market.

Given that the limits in the Paris agreement are not enforceable and so it will accomplish nothing then I can only conclude that it was about getting more money out the US taxpayer and transferring it to other nations.  There is also the increased cost of energy to the poor.  No doubt you remember them since you and Eric the Obtuse bleat about them constantly and yet mysteriously ignore the effects of policies you back on them.

(06-03-2017, 07:39 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(06-03-2017, 12:23 AM)Galen Wrote: As for the car companies they want to build cars that people actually want to buy with prices customers can afford.  This is how an automobile manufacturer makes money.  Saying that would seem to be redundant to most people but its hard to say how much Eric the Obtuse actually knows.

No fooling. Of course there is advertising to break sales resistance.

Advertising can only get you so far.  Eventually word gets out that your product is crap and sales go into the toilet.  There is also the small matter of making it harder for the poor to drive since you are pushing up the cost of a car.  This is yet another example of you and Eric the Obtuse [URL="https://mises.org/library/war-cars-war-workers-and-poor"not giving a shit[/URL] about the poor you bleat on about.