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Originally Posted by onwebcam
What if it's a big hoax and Al Gore and his fellow con artists get butt ugly rich from stealing more of our money and nothing changes? That is except for $9 an hour tree hugging government worker coming by and doing monthly home inspections.
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Basically, if there is a price on carbon then yes, some good things will happen. Currently Oil and gas are heavily subsidised - ie the US gov spending trillions on a war to secure oil reserves for private companies etc. With a carbon price it gives wave/solar/wind etc equal footing which will end up helping everyone through eventual energy independence and forced confrontation of issues such as oil depletion before we have to deal with serious price signals. I really don't care if Al Gore gets filthy rich. People are getting filthy rich now taking advantage of the status quo. If you worried about people making money and people being taken advantage of you'd never get anything done. I can certainly see a lot of utility in moving in that direction. And hey, a $9/hr job is still a job, I thought America needed those atm, the $x/hr jobs shooting brown people to subsidise private companies in the middle east government jobs market so a few people can get rich while nothing changes seems a bit stretched.