re: #44 lostlakehiker

What I meant was competitive, counting only the costs producers and consumers now see, and not counting long term negative externalities such as the down-the-road price in terms of consequences for the climate.

There is no “cost of cleanup” for CO2 because there is not, will not be, and cannot be any cleanup. CO2 released into the atmosphere cannot be called back. Costs to clean up oil spills, well, BP did have to bear some of that. Costs to clean up the tailings left by truncating mountaintops in WV? There, you have a point. But if only we could get the science and engineering to the point where green wins by any measure, this whole discussion would be moot.

Don’t give up on removal completely. It’s pricey, and we don’t have great tech yet.

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