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Thomas
wwo_thomas
01 May 2007 @ 13:36
I just had a thought  
You know that everyone's been going on about reducing carbon emissions to save the environment?

What better way of doing that than increasing the price/reducing the supply?

If it costs more to produce the same emissions as we do now, then surely with increasing prices, people will look for alternate ways to do things, reducing emissions and saving the environment.

I'm starting to see the good side of this oil shock already.
 
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WWO_mitchtrix[info]wwo_mitchtrix on 2nd May 2007 09:18 (UTC)
There are a few silver linings :)

These increases will also stop the chavs in their little Nova's, that can't be a bad thing, right?

And Gracemoms uncle has giving up smoking because he can't afford fuel and smokes, It's a shame that these 2 are very thin linings on a very HUGE problem
megawatt_seller[info]megawatt_seller on 2nd May 2007 09:59 (UTC)
's not how it works. The higher prices get, the more people will be desperate to burn anything whatsoever that's going to give them the electricity they need and they're not going to care too much about how much carbon it emits. It would be nice if we could just turn up all the nuclear power stations and get all our electricity that way but they're more or less at full load as it is - or, at least, what happens to pass for full load from a British nuke... ;o)
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