David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: The peril is that countries such as the USA will throttle their economies > by making energy too expensive.
That's hardly likely! It is getting cheaper by the day. The cost of wind and solar energy will soon be less than fossil fuel. Especially when you take into account the 20,000 people year who die from coal smoke, and the millions of people who are sickened by other air pollution. Even if global warming is not real, the present-day total cost of fossil fuel energy probably make it more expensive than alternatives such as wind and solar, when you included hidden costs such as pollution, wars fought over oil, massive subsidies for oil and coal, and so on. You really should not worry about things like that. - Jed
