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    Quote Originally Posted by Watercooler:
    The biggest obstacle to cutting down on pollution, someone has to pay. The cost of clean-up must be borne by someone somewhere. Everyone in HK all agree to reducing pollution in principle...until they have to pay out of their own wallets for it. That sums up nicely the reason for inaction.
    Government is sitting on billions of dolla of money.

    But won't spend it because its shit scared of what the property cartels will say.

    It only "spends" money on expensive infrastructure projects that only benefit one sector of the community, and you can guess which sector that is.
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    Certainly the government could spend more on strategies that could improve the situation however you need a carrot AND a stick to get things to change. People/corporations won't cooperate unless you make them pay to stay the same AND give them incentive to change.

    Double the electricity charge particularly over a certain amount of Kilowatt instead of giving rebates and people might start caring about power consumption. There was a year when my HK Electric owed me money... That's not an incentive to consume less.

    Tax the hell out of vehicles that consume more fuel and use the money to give larger incentive to buy hybrid or electric cars. HK is an ideal environment for electric vehicles, you can't go fast, there's no place to go and it's often start and stop.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pin:
    Government is sitting on billions of dolla of money.

    But won't spend it because its shit scared of what the property cartels will say.

    It only "spends" money on expensive infrastructure projects that only benefit one sector of the community, and you can guess which sector that is.
    Most of the billions is ring fenced for capital projects to avoid the 'Dutch disease'
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    Definitely positive sounds from this administration....

    Ms Loh is very focussed on buses being the main cause of roadside pollution. I hope the major step announced in the policy address is more than just an advanced retirement scheme for old franchised buses.