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Re: Rolling Blackouts
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 30 May 2001 03:43:50 GMT
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Christopher Weeks wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher Tracey writes:
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> > > In environmental terms, what is the cost of cheap oil?
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> > I'm probably in the ultra-minor minority of Americans who would like to
> > pay for the real price of oil- mainly to reflect the true environmental
> > costs.
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> Me too, actually. It seems to me like the only fair thing to do, and as long
> as it's a user fee that is pretty fairly apportioned, then I'd have no
> complaints. I'd actually like to see some reasonable attempt to remediate
> environmental damages and trustfund/invest in future greener power technology
> whether that's nuclear, OTEC, solar, wind, hydro, or whatever.
Chris, you never cease to amaze me. :)
IMO, The automobile is arguably the greatest threat to environmental and
social quality, and is probably one of the most subsidized sectors of
the world's economy. I was able to explain and demostrate this point to
some of my students this past term and I had several people tell me that
they never thought about it that way before. It gave me a glimmer of
hope. What I would like to see is the price of car insurance included
in the price of gas. Then it would be fairer to the person who drives a
100 miles a month and to the person who spends 30 times that on the
road. That would probably require some sort of universal id card
though.
I'm getting way off topic though...
-chris
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| (...) Chris's in general never cease to amaze me... <grin>... and you two both just did. (...) Arguably? *Arguably*?! I mean, show me anything else with greater threat. (...) <nod> I wish the government(s... all over the world) would invest in (...) (23 years ago, 30-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I'm thinking that's an insult. All I did was express a reasonable idea. :-) (...) I think Shiri suggested that she'd like to see PT subsidized ahead of cars. That is _so_ the wrong way to handle this. We just need to unsubsidize cars: (...) (23 years ago, 30-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Me too, actually. It seems to me like the only fair thing to do, and as long as it's a user fee that is pretty fairly apportioned, then I'd have no complaints. I'd actually like to see some reasonable attempt to remediate environmental damages (...) (23 years ago, 28-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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