Kasz216 said:
Mr Khan said:
Kasz216 said:
Mr Khan said:
You have to think long-term about the drive to sustainability as it relates to economics, mostly in light of the fact of peak oil. We should be taking advantage of cheap, free-flowing crude while we can to build up overhead so that when oil production inevitably hits the point of endless decline, we won't have to go through severe economic shock the likes of which the modern economic world has never known
While it creates inefficiencies in the current market, it prepares for a future that we will have to deal with one way or another
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Except, that's already been done, and had been done long before any government intervention. If anything, like most well meaning government laws, the effects probably end up being counterintutive.
As can be seen by the recent devestation in the solar industry... and in general heavy pullbacks in the alternative energy sector that's been happening for the last couple years.
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At least in Pennsylvania, those pullbacks are due to government interference. The great Mother Nature rapist himself, Tom Corbett and his masters in Coal and Natural Gas shut down a number of alternative energy initiatives
These industries seem to hinge on political will more than economic
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Your kinda missing the point, such initatives grate on public well being which leads to opposition which leads to politicians pulling the plugs on such iniatives and with such technologies leaving a negative taste in most peoples mouths due to the lost jobs funding said initatives caused in the first place.
Outside which, largely the collapse is just due to it being a product that's pushed on people despite not being viable... it's all just government created bubbles via subsidies.
Subsidies are never good.
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Subsidies are exactly for this sort of thing, to correct for stuff that is good, but that the market does not embrace in its current form. Subsidies are often applied too bluntly, to be sure, but green initiatives (as an initially noncompetitive emerging market) are exactly the sort of thing subsidies are there to fix
