re: #206 Bagua

Buyers always pay the cost, one way or another. Thus the buyer is the one with the incentive to find a new method when the old one becomes too expensive.

The US could, theoretically, meet the targets in emissions as proposed through both changes in lifestyles as well as use of currently understood non-fossil fuel energy sources.

However, for the KSA to cut their oil exports by what is implied… that scares them.

This is what seems really silly to me… here in the US we actually have the non-coal resources to make the proposed changes. Few nations have the solar, wind, and nuclear resources we have. We are not the ones in the worst shape, but a long run. Yet the naysayers in this country to an effort like the current one in Copenhagen are yammering like, well, like the Saudis, whose entire international and economic existance depends upon adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.