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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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