By Diane Caldwell
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Alan: Solar energy will continue to get cheaper while the trendline of fossil fuel cost
-- despite occasional price drops -- is forever upward. In the current "fuel mix," tar
sand oil is almost priced out of the market. Fossil fuel advocates pump the prolongation of
dirty fuels because it's "what they know " and how they "make a buck." If gasoline were taxed
as highly as in the rest of the world, per capita fossil fuel consumption would be half
what it is now and America's solar energy contribution to the overall "energy mix" would be in
line with Germany's 30%.
Alan: Solar energy will continue to get cheaper while the trendline of fossil fuel cost
-- despite occasional price drops -- is forever upward. In the current "fuel mix," tar
sand oil is almost priced out of the market. Fossil fuel advocates pump the prolongation of
dirty fuels because it's "what they know " and how they "make a buck." If gasoline were taxed
as highly as in the rest of the world, per capita fossil fuel consumption would be half
what it is now and America's solar energy contribution to the overall "energy mix" would be in
line with Germany's 30%.
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