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0 pointscrdoconnor10y ago0 comments

>I'm wondering, when they say prices are now near parity, is that pure prices, or does it still consider the "cost of externalities" factor?

I think it just counts externalities that are already priced in via taxes/subsidies.

It's not really possible to price global warming or clean air anyway.

Plus, remember the story about primary school parents who were fined for being late to pick up their kids?

The effect of trying to price global warming or clean air is harmful in and of itself. We shouldn't be trying to accurately assess the cost of destroying our environment to determine the exact tax to levy on the fossil fuel companies. We should be taxing them into oblivion now that we have alternatives.

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eru10y ago

Corporations may be people, but they are not humans. The Kindergarten late pick up pricing doesn't apply.

crdoconnorOP10y ago

Fossil fuel corporations will fight for their existence and profits from energy scarcity until their last gasp of tainted air. It won't affect their behavior at all.

It does apply to policymakers, however, who are very much human, and who place altogether too much faith in the idiotic models created by economists as it is.

mistermann10y ago

So just to be clear, we still do not know from what is included in this cost comparison, correct?

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