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It's a lot of money but it's a matter of perspective and situation whether it's prohibitive. If energy/emissions are more expensive, the upgrade would pay for i
by morsch 5y ago
It's a lot of money but it's a matter of perspective and situation whether it's prohibitive. If energy/emissions are more expensive, the upgrade would pay for itself sooner rather than later; other countries have generous financing aids; you buy a house assuming that there'll be expenses like that in the upcoming decades (and planning the money correspondingly), ...
- Karrot_Kream 5y agoYup, we need to be careful not to beggar current residents or create more resentment toward environmental initiatives. Offer subsidies in the beginning, and after a while, simply begin to tax electricity along with its pollution effects; price in the externalities. But we're a _long_ way from doing that in the US. We can't even get people to take the train from a park-and-ride to work and back!