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Originally posted by Ustwo
Lurkette, cheap power and cheap transportation are key for a good economy.
Where do you think most of it comes from?
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Who says clean has to be expensive? There's cost involved in altering the infrastructure for wind power, geothermal power, hydroelectric (although that has a negative effect on the ecology, usually). You wouldn't even really have to develop a whole lot of new sources, just shift the existing sources away from the "dirty" and nonsustainable ones and towards cleaner renewable sources.
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This isn't about being clean. You CAN'T get cleaner then H2O and CO2 with combustion.
I'm happy seeing 'clean' cars and the like, but if it burns, it makes CO2.
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There are things that can be done other than shifting to different kinds of combustion: intelligent city planning to reduce total miles driven, incentives for fuel efficiency (both in manufacturing and in purchasing more fuel efficient cars), better mass transit, etc. None of these would "trash" the economy - they just require adjustments in how we think about moving from one place to another. But they also require the will to encourage such a shift in thinking.