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It might help alter people's viewpoints more efffectively if you linked to debunking.
by comstock 9y ago
It might help alter people's viewpoints more efffectively if you linked to debunking.
- CamperBob2 9y agoProbably the most effective way to debunk these types of stories is to point out the hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies we've put into fossil-fuel energy over the years. A few billion more or less for Tesla, SpaceX, and SolarCity hardly seems worth complaining about in comparison. It's been argued that most of the US defense budget is a "subsidy" of our appetite for oil. I usually find such arguments facile, but in that particular instance, I'll be darned if I can come up with any good rejoinders.
- 0x4f3759df 9y agoReminds me of people who complain about the cost of 1-mile of lightrail but don't know the cost of 1-mile of freeway.
- CamperBob2 9y agoI'd probably be guilty of that one myself. Energy can be converted from one form to another when/where needed, and wheeled vehicles can go wherever there's a road, but fixed rail is stuck in one place forever. A rant for a different thread...
- 0x4f3759df 9y agoWheeled vehicles can go wherever we build roads... each road costs the taxpayer X / mile / year ... if we knew these costs we could make some rational decisions. The basic urbanism thesis posited by Charles Marohn and others, which I subscribe to, is that suburbs are not dense enough to maintain themselves (maintain roads, sewer, etc.) with the tax base