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Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies by triceratops on Thursday September 19, 2019 @11:45AM (#21017294)
Carbon tax + per head tax credit. Big consumers (the rich) end up paying, small consumers (the poor) end up with cash in their pocket, the government has no extra revenue that could lead to perverse incentives.
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Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies by robocat on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:13PM (#21020824)
That doesn't fix the problem.

Buying oil is already expensive, yet we buy too much of it.

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Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies by triceratops on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:16PM (#21020842)
It has to be expensive enough to depress consumption and/or promote more efficient use. Countries where oil is expensive have better fuel efficiency, for example.
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Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies by robocat on Thursday September 19, 2019 @06:18PM (#21021316)
Doubling the price doesn't help much (inelastic). Look at countries with huge petrol taxes and they still use heaps: https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/

I'm in New Zealand, and plenty of us have serious gas guzzlers even though petrol is far more expensive than in the US. A bunch of Scandinavian countries are twice as expensive as the US.

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