> Just accept the increased costs and enjoy your clean air. That's easy to say, but shouldn't we use existing costs as a base metric for measuring how much inc

> Just accept the increased costs and enjoy your clean air. That's easy to say, but shouldn't we use existing costs as a base metric for measuring how much increased costs we can bear? Otherwise we would have to accept energy costs that eclipse the cost of everything else--including basic living expenses. Of course, energy cost is tied to basic living expenses, so at some point higher energy costs would mean fewer people can afford to live. Therefore, clean air has to be balanced with the more basic human right to live.