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Comment by sorenjan | Hacker News Reader

This is a political issue. Fossil fuel is cheaper because consumers doesn't pay the external costs associated with them.

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Not all problems can be solved by just telling people to vote themselves poorer because it suits some people.

If you have a $35 demand charge for an induction stove, the political problem is that people have already voted themselves into very expensive energy.

The energy transition to clean energy is to a cheaper energy future.

Fossil fuels are not only more expensive, they cause tons of health problems from their pollution, in addition to climate change.

It doesn’t suit “other people”. It suit every single human in the long run. Problem is, not short term.

Okay, vote to stop giving your tax money to fossil fuel billionaires. Vote yourself richer

Natural gas is very convenient in many places, with sunk cost infrastructure and plenty to tap relatively nearby in the ground. But not in all places, I don’t get why countries like Japan are importing liquified natural gas. Or European, who gets much of it from Russia.

Much of Europe is importing fossil gas because they have made themselves dependent on it, because it used to be cheap, because they didn't have to pay the external costs.

Though you can count the tax dollars that go to the military as part of that cost

50% of your federal tax bill funds foreign wars and military weapons that are then turned on civilian populations including our own.

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