Australia

Considering the surveillance state our major political parties seem hell bent on establishing you know the government would just mandate a black box be installed next to every fuel tank that uploaded your road usage to Palantir so they could calculate your road usage taxes. Right?

I would imagine that given your username you wouldn't be in too big a rush to give the government a mandate to invade even more deeply into our affairs.

With regards to "doing" renewables... Yes, we should!

Let's face it, the 2 camps right now are:

• Burn things we dug out of the ground, spent a bunch of time and energy refining then shipped to a more proximate location.
• Steal power from the big ball of fusion fire in the sky, steal power from the big fuck off mass of air our planet is wrapped in, steal power from all that water sloshing around the dry bits of the planet, or occasionally lets dig a deep (but really narrow) hole and steal the power from the ground.

Eventually even the most rusted on climate change deniers are going to have to admit that, in this case, theft make a lot of sense.

Especially once we start seeing $4+ a litre thanks to an unconvicted pedophile in another country trying to act like a big man and picking fights he doesn't understand.

No they're not right. That fuel all ends up in the atmosphere, and the spent rubber ends up in the sea. It costs money to clean all that up.