Assessing the True Costs of Fossil Fuels

I’ve written so often on true costs of fossil fuels that I usually keep these posts short, at the risk of boring readers who have seen so much on the topic.   In any case, the author of the article linked above really gets it.

The concept of paying for cleaning up the waste from the way we generate and consume energy, or “internalizing the externalities” as it’s called in the parlance of the economists, is really catching on.  When I started talking about this years ago I was met with a blank stare.  Now we have numerous powerfully written articles like this one, helping share this extremely common sense-based idea.