.1. Government Provides incentive Program for Zero-Emission Vehicles {ZEVJ The Minister of Transport. the Honourable Marc Garneau. announced in the 2mg federal budget how government investment would make it easier for Canadians to choose a zero-emission vehicle. A zero-emission vehicle. or ZE'v'. is a vehicle that has the potential to produce no direct tailpipe emissions. The government is not only providing support to expand the network of zero- emission vehicle charging and refuelling stations, it is also creating new incentives for people and businesses to purchase zero-emission vehicles. The government will provide between same and $5.l'l to consumers who purchase a ZE'v'. For Critical Thinking Overall, does it appear that the incentive provided to purchase a ZE'uIr arises from the application of centralized command and control. the price system, or a mix of the two? Clearly explain your reasoning. 2. The Economic Explanation for Shrinking Airline Washrooms For a number of years. in a typical coach-class washroom on a passenger airplane, the distance from the mirror on one side to awall on the other measured about 34 centimetres. Cm newly produced jetliners now going into service. the washroom width is closer to BE centimetresa reduction of more than 2D percent. The reason for the decrease is that the previously more 'spacious' washrooms required airline companies to incur a significant opportunity cost. Reducing the widths of the forward and rear washrooms by 13 centimetres each gains half the distance required to add an extra row of seats on a typical jetliner. Airline companies can obtain the additional space for an extra row of seats by removing closets. shrinking galleys, and placing all other rows of seats a little closer together. Ely adding a row of seats. an airline company gains millions of dollars of additional revenue over the lifetime of a typical plane. This fact explains why these companies came to view the opportunity cost of the larger washrooms of the past as too high to continue to incur. For Critical Thinking Why do you suppose that some airlines have simply removed a washroom or me from each of their passenger planes