[steelbrain]

Ah yes, The European Solution. Tax the better method until it’s at least as bad as the worse method.

[fragmede]

There's a story I heard about the oil industry in not-europe. Flaring off natural gas because it wasn't economically feasible to capture it and store it for energy is just "how things were". Ever idiot can see it's a waste, but it takes a special government to see how to fix that waste.

Talk to the engineers to figure out how much it would cost to capture that natgas. Set the fine for flaring natural gas to be that, + $10,000 or so per day.

Voila! Suddenly it's economical to capture that natgas.

[myaccountonhn]

Better than pretending the problem doesn't exist.

[saubeidl]

Cheaper != Better.

That's why we need to make the worse method more expensive, so price sensitive buyers don't go for that one.