You've cited costs but left out evidence that could be used to illustrate how they differ. If you put that together, it would be more discussion-worthy. You've

You've cited costs but left out evidence that could be used to illustrate how they differ. If you put that together, it would be more discussion-worthy. You've also conflated the short and long terms where convenient. We have a century of energy and research dumped into petrochemicals, but absent are the historical costs of building and maintaining it. Roads, gas stations, cleaning, etc are acceptable ongoing costs of diesel, and the refineries and pipelines are all paid for, just as renewables will one day be. You do mention the cost of generators and peaking plants, but you haven't scaled any of it across a century for comparison. And rightfully, because that's one of the hard problems about illustrating change at scale. I think people should have more input over energy choices, as in, deciding whether and how long to allow energy companies to bill customers to cover construction costs, limits to externalizing costs, etc, but I think we need very open talks about the financials and feasibility. Lastly, our (great)grandparents subsidized energy development for our futures. As those who only grew up in the shade of those trees, how selfish are we to resist that for our children? If there's anyone to be annoyed with, it's the generation or two that lived large without saving or having to foot the bills - largely because of cheap energy. It will be more costly to wait until it's not our problem.