[ImaCake]

This whole argument would be dead in the water if society had de-carbonised 20 years ago instead of now. This stinks of the personal responsibility fallacy of carbon emissions when the real answer is to do the boring job of making energy production cleaner and doing a better job at moving people around.

[mritterhoff]

Well said. Moralizing energy consumption is inefficient and no way to run a market. It'd be better to pass regulation that internalized the externalities in the price of electricity so that it captured the societal costs of emissions.

[tengbretson]

This should be seen as the opportunity of a lifetime. "Invest in infrastructure to power this awesome new technology" is obviously a more compelling story than "Invest in all new infrastructure—the plan is to use it less"

[pj_mukh]

Bingo.

Playing whack a mole with individual behavior while the elephant in the room is energy production and transportation remains asinine as always.