Re: light switch tax

On Apr 1, 9:37 am, TravIsGod <travis...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I know.  Desire doesn't change shit, but demand does.  Effectual
demand, to use Smith's words.

Demand can't change the laws of physics, either, dude.  That is the
fundamental error in economics.

We're already on a coal economy Trav.  Coal provides the majority of
baseline power everywhere.

Pierre

No, we aren't.  We're in an oil economy.  Oil powers things, not coal..

We're in a hydrocarbon economy and coal is a cheap hydrocarbon.

Coal provides electricity but it does not move things around.  Oil
does that.

So? Oil does that because it's cheap and convenient. When oil is no
longer cheap and convenient we'll use something else to move us
around.

I'd love it as much as the next guy if we had electric cars, but the
economics of these just doesn't work.  On a 1950s standard of living,
perhaps.  That's an enormous downward revision.

Until we as a race make peace with the fact that growth has ended, we
cannot come up with a way out of this mess.  Pretending like coal is
the "answer" and we can technologize our way out of it is stupid.  You
need to stop that.

I'm not saying coal is "the" answer, it is "an" answer.

The energy ROI curve is physics.  It cannot be altered by wishing or
demand, however strenuous.

Hydrocarbons are not the only energy source, just the cheapest one we
know of RIGHT NOW.

Pierre
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