Price Energy Accurately

Price Energy Accurately
Make energy prices reflect the full cost of production including pollution, land degradation, CO2 emissions, and depletion of fossil fuels. This would reward efficiency and conservation, make energy-intensive things cost more, and help us consider the kinds of energy we use. We'd use energy more appropriately.

Instead of: Undervaluing clean technology and designing our infrastructure and lives around overconsumption of a limited and polluting resource for which there is no known substitute.

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