Conservatives: Do you consider externalities?

Oh good grief. This isn't about Conservatives....this is about the market who is NOT set up to expand the use of the golden egg - renewable energy.

Go talk to them - and while your there - why don't you find out why the renewable industry is allowed to quietly kill off the environment while if there is an oil accident its major news?

And yet we are expected to use mercury filled light bulbs. Stop drilling for oil and using coal now? How many people would die from the heat and cold immediately? Ever consider that externality? I promise you there would be more deaths from that than from lung cancer and asthma at this point. I have no attachment to fossil fuels per se but there is not yet a realistic replacement for it that isn't argued as being environmentally unsafe in one way or another.

So should we just all die and have survival of the fittest? I don't see that as any kinder than what you suggest. We are in the midst of change but not ready to dump fossil fuels. Any reasonable person would have to admit that. Most conservatives are not against alternative fuels so really your charges are false.

Until there is a viable option out there we have to stick with fossil fuels. Nuclear energy took a huge step back with the crisis in Japan, wind energy has alot of negative consequences, and solar energy is not close to being cost efficient yet.

All you can do is keep using what works, and trying to develop better options until they are market competitive.

Yes we do. The same long term outlook can't be said of the reactionary left though. Consider solar panels and LCD lighting.

''Hypothetical question: You’re heartsick about global warming, so you’ve just paid $25,000 to put a solar system on the roof of your home. How do you respond to news that it was manufactured with a chemical that is 17,000 times stronger than carbon dioxide as a cause of global warming?''

''When industry began using NF3 in high-tech manufacturing, it was hailed as a way to fight global warming. But new research shows that this gas (NF3) has 17,000 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide and is rapidly increasing in the atmosphere...''

''Moreover, the Kyoto Protocol, which limits a half-dozen greenhouse gases, does not cover NF3.''

''The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began actively encouraging use of NF3 in the 1990s, as the best solution to a widespread problem.''

http://e360.yale.edu/feature/the_greenhouse_gastha...

''LCD making worse for environment than coal?

"Missing greenhouse gas" called nitrogen trifluoride, used in production of flat-screen TVs, chips, and synthetic diamonds, could accelerate global warming, according to a report.''

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9983744-54.html?...

That is understood by many however no one is coming up with reliable solutions to these problems. Sure they want to stop the drilling but no solutions are introduced as an alternative that are reliable and low cost. One of the problems people are facing is the working class can not afford the solutions Obama has to offer.

A crock. As for "externalities", how about the costs of your enviro-extremism? Asthma's a great example, being an asthmatic myself. I used to get my albuterol inhalers for $10 - generics. But you Lefties went to ban all CFCs, which made the new generation utterly ineffectual and about 5 times as much in cost. How many people have died because of your extremism?

If there is an increase in asthma, much of it can be attributed to our society's germaphobia - kids don't roll around in the mud anymore to develop immunities.

Meanwhile the new CFL light bulbs that the LIBERALS are forcing us to buy contain high amounts of mercury, are a danger if they break and will contaminate landfills in the future.

What exactly do Liberals consider for externalities?

How do you heat your home? How do you power your auto?

Unless you plan to give all those things up quit crying. Renewable energy is not cost effective nor efficient.

With energy comes money.

With money comes everything else, to include research into alternatives.

Without it comes deprivation, in everything, including research into alternatives.

First things first.

There are always externalities in every market transaction.

It'd be nice if they were considered.