Just a Question for Discussion. What if Gasoline hits $10.00 a gallon in the U.S.A?

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29. It should be our goal

Not a short term goal because people need time to adjust. It should be a longer term goal to dramatically increase the cost of gasoline via a carbon emission tax. That tax money could be redistributed to offset the tax burden. The key thing is that we need a financial incentive to move from carbon emitting energy solutions to non-carbon emitting energy solutions. As long as people aren't faced with the cost of their actions, they will not consider them in their decisions. The result is that people will talk a lot about alternative energy, but they won't do anything about it.

I had a chat with a neighbor that works on electricity provisioning. He said that they did polls that backed this up. When asked if people want green energy sources, the response was almost unanimous in favor. When asked if they would pay 20% more for them, the response was almost unanimous in opposition. We need to make people pay for emitting carbon or they will never stop doing it.