| > carbon taxes, when they have been enacted they have not been effective You're arguing that fuel use is inelastic. This is obviously false, and there's plenty of evidence of that. When gas is cheap, people buy gas guzzlers. When gas is expensive, they buy gas sippers. The latest evidence is the news stories about people cutting back when gas prices spiked a couple months ago. If the carbon tax had no effect, then the tax wasn't large enough. There is most definitely a tax level where you are going to reduce your driving, a tax level where you will buy a more efficient car, and a tax level where you will get an EV. > can come ... who knows what will be developed Refuting today's reality with "who knows what will be developed" is not a compelling argument. Let's take hydro: 1. no more hydro dams will be built because they ruin the rivers 2. there aren't many good sites for hydro dams anyway 3. current hydro dams are always being targeted for destruction by environmentalists. In Washington State, a hydro dam was demolished recently for that reason. 4. droughts are drying up the hydro power in the American west and even in Norway. The cost of nuclear is the cost of endless lawsuits. Government can clear that away with the legislative wand. > Attach 12 hours of storage to a solar array I encourage you to do that for your house. Let us know how it works out. |