Whenever someone says that something is too expensive because it costs X, I can't help but think they have too static a view of the world. Solar was too expensi

Whenever someone says that something is too expensive because it costs X, I can't help but think they have too static a view of the world. Solar was too expensive until it wasn't. Batteries in cars were too big and expensive until they weren't. The status quo of fossil fuels has more than a hundred years of research and infrastructure invested in it to drive prices down. New green tech doesn't. That makes the latter more expensive in many situations right now, sure, but it also means it has potentially many more low-hanging fruits to be picked, where the former has long since hit a plateau with diminishing returns, and is ripe for being overtaken. It doesn't mean all investments in green tech will pay off, but using the current prices as an argument against investing in reducing those prices is absurd.