Bart R resolutely ignores that you cannot internalise the cost of CO2 emissions, if you don’t know what it is in the first place. Which we don’t.
What some central planner tells you is the price of vodka or matryoshka dolls or ladas is not the market price.
I can’t tell you before the market has expressed its opinion of the price what it will be.
I’m saying what you and I both know — that it’s the market that must fix that price at the point of diminishing returns to shareholders, as with any good.
That is the point at which the price of the CO2E buying decision is internalised.
And goes on about subsidies that don’t accrue to the industries that are actually at the heart of the alleged problem – oil/gas/coal.
What do I care where some of the subsidies accrue and where some of them don’t?
They’re subsidies, they’re unnecessary subsidies, they distort the market and produce a drag on the economy.
I don’t think oil/gas/coal are The Devil unto whom all wages of sin vest. What a simpleton I’d have to be.
If you don’t believe there are subsidies that do accrue to these businesses, however, then you are simply willfully blind.
And ignores that even if CAGW is true, and we figure out its cost so we can accurately internalise it, switching from cheap energy will still make everything more expensive. A lot more, given present technology.
Yes, yes. And I believe cell phone calls really have to be more expensive than landline phone calls. Except that only happens in North America, because of regulations enforcing a lax and ineffective market for mobile service.
And I believe the cost of computers has gone up with all these newfangled ‘microchips’ over vacuum tubes.
And I believe it’s more expensive to insulate and seal the drafts in a house in Ypsilanti against winter cold than to turn up the thermostat.
I believe you Punksta.
You’re that credible.