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To clarify or perhaps nitpick, if the price of gas included the cost of its damage to the environment (and all other current externalities), then there would be
by baddox 11y ago
To clarify or perhaps nitpick, if the price of gas included the cost of its damage to the environment (and all other current externalities), then there would be no externalities, and decreasing the usage of gasoline wouldn't be a desirable economic goal.
- tptacek 11y agoRight, but then, that's exactly the point of taxing it, which the parent commenter was recoiling from, because it raised prices. :)