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Makes sense. But this sounds like plumbing vs. carrying water in buckets from the river. The plumbing is more expensive up front, but cheaper long term.
by ericd 8y ago
Makes sense. But this sounds like plumbing vs. carrying water in buckets from the river. The plumbing is more expensive up front, but cheaper long term.
- mschuster91 8y agoWe are talking about investments to the tune of dozens of billions of dollars. Who is supposed to pay for this? Or, who is supposed to build it? Europe has a decent shortage of construction workers on one side and in city/government planning and approval on the other side. In my opinion this is a task for the government if it wants to make sure people move away from fossil fuels, but the US president is holding the country hostage over a wall while the infrastructure is falling apart and Europe is locked up by populists and Brexit so no movement from there (and we Germans can't get HV transmission lines built across Germany either without lots of NIMBY protests and tons of wasted money). My generation however will have to live with the consequences, and that sucks.
- ericd 8y agoAgreed that it’s a government job (though the utilities are quasi-governmental agencies if I’m not mistaken). How many billions are we talking? If it’s not too many, I’m sure the US government wastes that amount on much less important things.