Quote from: RE on May 04, 2024, 02:21 PMSo, bottom line I still don't see it reducing consumption all that much.

RE [/color][/i]

You don't get it for whatever reason.  It is not for me to understand your recalcitrance.

The average guy would start riding a bicycle to work if Fee and Dividend goes high enough.  Breaking even will not be good enough for him, and he won't be breaking even when everyone else does it anyway.  Believe it or not, billionaires actually do watch their money.  As I have know a few you can take my word on it.  At $105 dollar a gallon gas, bunker fuel will cost so much motor yacht use will vanish because nobody will want a smaller yacht, and billionaires will actually not be able to use the ones they have now so much.  Not at an absurd price where bunker fuel is twenty times what it is now. 

Billionaires have most of their wealth in assets, but you act like they can spend their billions any way they wish.  A man with a hundred million and a man with a billion.  The man with the hundred million could easily have more ready cash.

I am not going to argue that changing the price of fossil fuels will change behavior.  The idea that it would not makes no sense at all.

Everyone's behavior would change.  And the only losers are billionaires and doomers who have become so sour they can't believe there actually could be a solution to the clusterfuck.

Doom is only a rest stop between paradise or oblivion.