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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
There is a big need for a stepping stone.
Every single good you consume has transportation costs.
Food is one such good that has a massive portion of it's overall cost to produce coming from transportation.
It's pretty easy when almost every single person here is in the top 5% of wealth in the world to say that you're willing to pay more for energy and goods because the environment is important to you.
The reality is that a bump of 10% in energy costs causes a large segment of the world's population to go hungry.
This is not the place for an abrupt change, but rather a measured one with a lot of foresight.
I agree I'd love to see Calgary become an energy hub and not just a fossil fuel hub. But to get money for research you need people to have a profit motive. Right now renewables don't look to hold an impending solution to world energy demand, so it's difficult to drive much investment there.
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See I think we should really be past profit motive. I understand its currently what makes the world go round but its also what currently stalls it. Many industries, including forms of energy the world use to rely on have gone under for the sake of progress. This has to be one of them. And as sad as it is that people will lose jobs etc new jobs will also be created. And yes transportation costs money because oil costs money. But if energy is renewable and thus no longer scarce, along with a shift to electric modes of transportation, I believe the cost of transportation actually decreases. If its at the cost of Albertas boom, or Saudis boom, so be it. Sacrifices have to be made in the name of progress. Not being willing to make those sacrifices is what is holding us back. Not Alberta, people.