An Australian Parliamentary committee has recommended that petrol and diesel cars be phased out in favour of electric vehicles in a report. This is not yet law but shows that the government is serious about reducing the dependency Australia has on oil and reducing greenhouse emissions.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Sunday April 07 2019, @11:42AM (3 children)
>Encouraging folks to move away from fossil fuels is a good idea.
This is a tautology. The devil is in the details.
Anyway, let's get popcorn. We shall discover soon enough whether environmentalists are for sustainable development, or a way to drain the remaining money from the old fashioned western style societies.
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(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @04:59PM (2 children)
No. The above statement has none of the characteristics of a tautology.
A tautology is something like:
"Bot incorrectly used the term 'tautology' the wrong way"
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday April 08 2019, @08:21PM (1 child)
Among the definitions of tautology: (LOGIC)
a statement that is true by necessity or by virtue of its logical form.
The assertion was, "encouraging people to move away from fossil fuels is good". Now Fossil fuels are by definition of finite or looking to renew nature. hence, logically you should adopt alternative ones unless you consider desirable to run-out of energy.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday April 08 2019, @08:23PM
Looong was autocorrected to looking.
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