The problem is it's extremely energy intensive. The math just doesn't work. IIRC, we currently have three big "carbon capture" plants operating to try and remove CO2 from the atmosphere. (As opposed to the carbon capture they do in things like concrete plants.) Those plants are operating at a fraction the efficiency they expected. Age even if they did work, we'd need to open a new plant like those every single day for a decade before we could capture just the emissions we're putting out right now.

It's not gonna work.

Yup, the idea of electric cars is great, but it easily becomes something like Braess Paradox. Where building bigger roads leads to more cars & more traffic. Building electric cars just means fuel is cheaper so people drive more.

And even if we were able to electrify every single vehicle in the world, with sufficient charging infrastructure, cheap reliable renewable energy, and abundant resources for cheap replacement batteries; that still leads to collapse. Assuming electric cars are afforable,b that pushes more "investing" in so many car-centric single-family suburbs that are cashflow negative will have to finally face drastic increases in taxes. We'll wish that walkability and public transit should had been prioritized, as we desperately densify in patchwork ways that cost more in the long run.

Then if you look at the amount of pollution caused by rubber tires, continuing with electric cars using rubber tires is just leading to collapse from inhaled particles and forever chemicals.

The answer has always been walkable cities with infrastructure for bikes, busses, streetcars, and rail. This temporary century-long obsession with abandoning what's worked for human cities and splurging with the assumption that the temporary abundance of cheap energy would never end. But we never change in time.

You say that as if the solution is just "people in charge say it should be fixed". What are the major causes of the housing crisis & see do you see it being fixed?

From what I've been reading from various sources, the problems we're seeing are a combination of deep-seated urban design failures, combined with the changes to investment rules over the last few decades. Neither are quick fixes.

You're aggressively missing the point. It's it a mental health issue, or are you being deliberately obtuse?

An ex-gf once did cocaine off an RCMP officers breast at a party in Montreal, so the idea that they don't use drugs because "policy" is such a damn joke.

I mean, I've been on percentages for pretty much my entire life. It's worked out just fine.

Well yeah, Trudeau stuck his foot in his mouth about housing, and continues to not solve the massive problem. I get the anger, and since "progressive" Neoliberals can't solve it, they're turning to Pierre.

Sorry, but how does that tax exemption work for the landlords then? They have to live in the unit for at least a year to avoid capital gain on the property.

I'm in Alberta, and we actually got a pair of 10% reductions to builders pay rates in 2018, meaning we're earning 20% less now. Add in the sporadic work the last few years, and I'm having trouble keeping the build paid. We need a general strike.

Grocery chains are literally posting record profits year after year. Prices are up, and profits are up. What other explanation do you need?

As one of those folks myself, thanks for thinking of us. The worst of it for me is our city is short on concrete workers & framers, they moved to Ontario in 2020 when things shut down. So now us downstream trades like sheetrock, electrical, & carpenters end up working part time, because projects are trickling out. I haven't worked in 2 weeks. August is usually so busy I can't even consider booking vacation. Now it's dead.

So then we exit that job, move to another industry, and the entire building capacity has shrunk when we need it to grow. So at least pay us well, so we can survive this push-pull supply chain nonsense.

So a 1% annualized growth rate, while our growth from immigration is 3% a year (1.2M/40M). That's a recession pretending to be growth, and they're still raising interest rates.

As a construction worker who's been working 1/3 time, or less due to housing slowing down, how are we supposed to sustain this influx of people without massive public housing projects? Without refunding the CMHC and actually building affordable housing, instead of "luxury condos" everywhere.