darshan trivedi 844 days ago

Too much negativity won''t be useful. Let''s forget what the govts can do and focus on what we can do

(1) Car ownership is a scared thing in our country. Aspirational, sign of success. Destroy those cultural notions. Equate it with smoking.

(2) You''re not getting rid of coal easily for power generation, however if you do drive EVs it is much less pollution because you get almost 80-90% efficient conversion of power and it will improve as the grid goes more renewable( which is a given because renewables a re much much cheaper now )

(3) Use EVs. Most fleet operators are going to switch to them because of purely economic reasons. These include your taxis and other goods delivery services. The auto indutry will resist that because EVs are much easier to maintain and dealerships will lose a lot of repair/maintenance revenue. Make it clear that you will buy electric or nothing at all. Even if you don''t have plans, just start asking, these people won''t change business strategy until they see a sizeable interest

(4) Don''t crib about petrol prices. It was never a fundamental right. The sooner we accept it the better, if Opec reduces production we will feel the pain, the only way to subsidize it through taking on govt debt to provide subsidies. Eventually you''re still bleeding money to opec, better to stop those leakages and use it for greening the grids

(5)Start following cleantechnica.com/ reneweconomy.au, energytrend, evobsession and other cleantech sites. You will feel better.