Comments on: Investment in Clean Energy is Cheaper than the Alternative http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/04/08/wsj_oped_energy_investment/ Blogging the science and policy of global warming Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:04:56 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: kenzrw http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/04/08/wsj_oped_energy_investment/comment-page-1/#comment-1051 kenzrw Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:15:04 +0000 http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/04/08/wsj_oped_energy_investment/#comment-1051 It usually takes a disaster to get people moving on innovations plus monetary incentives. We should have had a replacement for gasoline engines in cars decades ago (think about it - what has really changed in cars since the Model T? Same steering wheels, 4 tires, internal combustion engines, etc). We tend to get lazy when we make too much money on old designs and have no incentive to change (TV sets are another thing that hasen't changed until recently. We could have had flat panel sets 20 years ago, but there was no incentive). Big corporations are milking every single dime from the consumer on old designs before updating. It usually takes a disaster to get people moving on innovations plus monetary incentives. We should have had a replacement for gasoline engines in cars decades ago (think about it – what has really changed in cars since the Model T? Same steering wheels, 4 tires, internal combustion engines, etc). We tend to get lazy when we make too much money on old designs and have no incentive to change (TV sets are another thing that hasen't changed until recently. We could have had flat panel sets 20 years ago, but there was no incentive). Big corporations are milking every single dime from the consumer on old designs before updating.

]]> By: davidzet http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/04/08/wsj_oped_energy_investment/comment-page-1/#comment-1047 davidzet Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:49:33 +0000 http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/04/08/wsj_oped_energy_investment/#comment-1047 Sorry -- my clever (html critical) lawyer joke failed. It was supposed to replace "kill all the lawyers" with "end subsides"... [how about a preview button?] Sorry — my clever (html critical) lawyer joke failed. It was supposed to replace "kill all the lawyers" with "end subsides"…

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]]> By: davidzet http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/04/08/wsj_oped_energy_investment/comment-page-1/#comment-1046 davidzet Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:48:00 +0000 http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/04/08/wsj_oped_energy_investment/#comment-1046 First step, Kill all the lawyers end subsidies. Many of these businesses will have a hard time, but existing subsidies for oil, ethanol, etc. <a href="http://aguanomics.com/2008/03/farm-bill-must-die.html" rel="nofollow">make things far-harder</a> for them. First step, Kill all the lawyers end subsidies. Many of these businesses will have a hard time, but existing subsidies for oil, ethanol, etc. make things far-harder for them.

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