• fidodo@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    How long would it take us to be carbon neutral if we took all that and put it in green energy?

    • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Not an economist. My guess, 2 -4 years. Cut subsidies to oil, methane, natural gas. Incentivize and subsidize renewables. The market reacts quickly.

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        2 years ago

        If you want to pay for the new stove, furnace, water heater, and the electric upgrades I’d need for that, please do. I picked gas over electric because I didn’t have the wiring necessary to get electric. If it was cost effective to go with electric, I would.

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          2 years ago

          That’s the idea. 7 trillion dollars per year is a lot of money and that stuff is where some of it would go.