Avinash_Tyagi said:
Actually increasing prices on energy isn't always a bad thing, see by increasing prices you force people to conserve, only use power on the very essentials. It becomes a kind of excise tax and forces people to change their habits. As for footprints, offshore wind farms create a much smaller footrpint, and since they can be taller in the open seas, they can be more efficient than the onshore ones Why not save the hundreds of billions of dollars by using coal/oil/nuclear, and use the extra funds for research, rather than use all the money to pour into inefficient poor technology?
Because the coal oil and nuclear produce a lot more pollution, and if the climate change supporters are right, it'll just screw over the future. |
Moderately higher energy prices (like a $200 electric bill) will make people conserve energy ... Dramatically higher energy prices (like the $2,000 electric bill associated with Solar power) will make people choose between driving to work, heating their homes or eating.
Now, consider what if the global warming supporters are wrong? What makes you think that the same organizations who blamed global cooling on evil fossil fuels in the 1960s, then started blaiming global warming on the evil fossil fuel companies in the 1980s, and now blame climate change on those evil fossil fuel companies, are not just taking natural changes in the climate using fossil fuels as a scapegoat inorder to enact their political ideologies? While you're thinking this over consider Canada, a country with 150% the land mass of Europe and has 5% the population and (in most ways) is the picture of sustainable development, is the "Evilest" country in the world to most environmental organizations while Russia and China (where most of the worlds worst environmental disasters are currently happening) are let off the hook.
