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If someone is willing to pay, who cares? Energy has a price. Focus on regulating how energy is generated, and when prices climb the market will solve the proble
by monero-xmr 2y ago
If someone is willing to pay, who cares? Energy has a price. Focus on regulating how energy is generated, and when prices climb the market will solve the problem.
If instead you focus on using the government to outlaw demand, only failure will follow. I mean, didn't the government outlawing the demand for illegal drugs fail miserably? I believe drugs are cheaper, more potent, and more available than ever.
Similarly, if there is demand for compute, then compute will occur. There is always a clearing price commiserate with the risk.
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoA carbon tax would be the most free market way to do it: tax fossil carbon as it comes out of the ground. The market can handle the rest. Can’t seem to make that happen politically, though.
- DrNosferatu 2y agoCareful with carbon tax plans, they can be regressive: https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/energy/what-carbon-tax-can-do-and-why-it-cannot-do-it-all https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/energy/what-carbon-tax-can-do...