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Re:America's first big offshore wind farm sets record low price by vkou on Thursday August 09, 2018 @05:28PM (#17728668)
And if you can't tax externalities, do you just throw your hands up in the air, and say: 'Welp, I guess coal is here to stay?'

Perfect is the enemy of good enough.

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Re:America's first big offshore wind farm sets record low price by Dylan16807 on Thursday August 09, 2018 @11:38PM (#17730520)
What do you mean "can't"? It's hard for me to picture the government being unable to tax a product. It seems like an irrelevant thought experiment.
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Re:America's first big offshore wind farm sets record low price by vkou on Friday August 10, 2018 @03:48PM (#17736242)
Politicians in the United States can't accurately tax coal's externalities in the same way that they can't embark on a campaign of land redistribution. In the current climate, it is political suicide.
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