Thread: OK, so why isn't the public screaming for alternative energy NOW?

The argument of environmental economists is that if you were to include the externalities of oil based energy into the costs, it WOULD already be high enough to be over the hump. Which is almost definitely true since externalities are not internalized much at all.

Thank you.

I was spiraling off into some potentially harmful cognition for a second there.

No one seems to factor in the cost of environmental damage. Our current system will cost us a lot more in the future than it does today.

no redstate cornfarmers get subsidies, at all

ya lol

let's kill off the entire gulf coast and refuse to stop our dependency on oil.

Because the public is too stupid and apathetic to know or care about the consequences of the lifestyles we have chosen

ding ding ding ding!

true story

probably one of the few good things Illinois has managed to do in the past 60 years is get a shit ton of nuclear power plants built in this state

I bought BP gas today. Feels good man