Denmark has fewer people than Wisconsin, if Denmark did something that doesn't imply the US should or even can do the same thing.
And did Danes suffer from their government shaping the market with energy taxes to stimulate innovations in clean power? In one word, said Connie Hedegaard, Denmark’s minister of climate and energy: “No.”
Suffer, as in, "they are horribly suffering", No. Suffer as in they are less wealthy than they otherwise could have been, rather likely. All the costs of those taxes, and investments in alternate sources are just that, real costs. And no I'm not saying Denmark's economy is in the toilet or anything like that, I'm only saying they are facing extra costs.
There is little whining here about Denmark having $10-a-gallon gasoline because of high energy taxes.
Which would be very unlikely to be the case in the US.
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Edit - By "should or even can do", I don't mean to imply that the US should not at any point no longer use oil much for energy production, or that it can not do this ever. Can not is true in the short run, "should not" is true for a much longer time, but not forever. |
