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Originally Posted by ken0042
Number one excuse why I haven't gone solar- Enmax doesn't allow it without paying a huge cost and signing a commitment of over a decade.
You guys know that I am far from being an environmentalist. Even from a "give a hoot- don't pollute" perspective it makes sense to use solar power.
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So this pretty much nails it on the head.
You want to make change -hit peoples wallets
I am not proposing this, but you want people to turn off their laptops when they leave home - tax electricity rates more. You want people to support expensive green energy - give home owners larger then market value kickbacks for every electron they put back into the grid. You want me to bike to work - make my round trip of 25km cost more than $2.30 in gas cost. People will only change every so slightly without money to influence them.
The argument isn't if we can turn off fossil fuels, it is how much can we offset them with other sources (at least for a long time).
Climate change or not - I don't think ANYONE thinks that dumping pollution into the environment is a good thing, it just a function of how much we are willing to pay to mitigate it.