Paying Too Much for Energy? The True Costs of Our Energy Choices
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/708722019-04-10T13:24:38Z Paying Too Much for Energy? The True Costs of Our Energy Choices Greenstone, Michael Looney, Adam http://web.mit.edu/ceepr/www/publications/workingpapers.html Energy consumption is critical to economic growth and quality of life. America’s energy system, however, is malfunctioning. The status quo is characterized by a tilted playing field, where energy choices are based on the visible costs that appear on utility bills and at gas pumps. This system masks the “external” costs arising from those energy choices, including shorter lives, higher health care expenses, a changing climate, and weakened national security. As a result, we pay unnecessarily high costs for energy. New “rules of the road” could level the energy playing field. Drawing from our work for The Hamilton Project, this paper offers four principles for reforming U.S. energy policies in order to increase Americans’ well-being. 2012-05-17T13:57:23Z 2012-05-17T13:57:23Z 2012-02 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70872 WP-2012-002 en_US CEEPR Working Papers;2012-002 An error occurred on the license name. An error occurred getting the license - uri. application/pdf MIT CEEPR |
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| title | Paying Too Much for Energy? The True Costs of Our Energy Choices |
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