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Do you think the price of energy now is appropriate? There are clearly negative externalities associated with CO2 emissions that aren't taken into account in th

• anamax 16y ago
  > There are clearly negative externalities associated with CO2 emissions that aren't taken into account in the price today. I'd be more sympathetic to your externalities argument if there was some evidence that you weren't just using it as an excuse to do what you want to do for other reasons. For example, you're ignoring the negative externalities of your proposal. And then there's the small matter that the predicted cost of the externalities is significantly lower than cost of the "solution". Money has positive time value. What? You don't like numerical arguments? Or, is it that you didn't know that the numbers existed? > Wouldn't an artificially high price of carbon emissions be quite a bit better than an artificially low one? No. Or rather, it depends on the magnitudes of "high" and "low". Most folks who complain about subidized energy miscount. Feel free to demonstrate that you'r an exception.