[Greenbuilding] Drying Clothes

[Steven Tjiang]

Actually pricing does work. We have failed to internalize the environmental
costs of fossil fuels.  If we tax tar sands based on the carbon that
resulted from its production and its use, that oil might not even be
economically viable. Many of the examples you quoted wouldn't be cheap if we
taxed carbon.

There is a very clear direct effect of gasoline prices on the kinds of car
people buy and the miles people drive.

---- Steve (KZ6LSD)


On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:21 PM, JAY WALSH <jaywalsh at usa.net> wrote:

> Steven, Recently I have been thinking that the solution is not "Higher
> Prices"
> or "Scarcity" for fuel.
> We have higher prices and scarcity and this just seems to be driving the
> marketplace to more polluting fuel sources as they become more financially
> attractive. Case in point are: the TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL
> pipeline
> $7 billion project to bring heavy, sour crude oil from the tar sands
> production in Alberta, Canada to Port Arthur, Texas for refining, and the
> Hydrofracking taking place in upstate NY and Penn, and the many BoiMass
> wood
> burning plants underdevelopment throughout the country. It's so bad it
> makes
> me want to support Nuclear Power (which I also dislike).  Can't say I have
> any
> better solutions, but question banking on higher prices and scarcity as a
> solution that will save us.
>
> Steven Tjiang <steve at tjiang.org> wrote:
> > More or less agree with you. ?There is ?only one thing that really works:
> > increase energy price and scarcity. ?We can set good examples of what is
> > possible but to expect the rest of the north america to see the examples
> for
> > they are we need energy prices to go up.
> > ---- Steve (KZ6LSD)
>
>
>
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