Yup, we need to be careful not to beggar current residents or create more resentment toward environmental initiatives. Offer subsidies in the beginning, and aft

Yup, 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!