There's no such thing as low-cost fuels.
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There is no free market for oil.
There is no free market in oil.
Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.
Nothing could do more to help the world's poor than to make fossil fuels cheap and plentiful.
We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently.
Companies, cities, and potentially even individuals could have a small refinery to make their own fuel.
Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive.
Ethanol's not an ideal fuel.
I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available.
It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.