Why We Should All Be Paying More at the Pump

Photo via Wired This is doomed to be an unpopular post, I’m afraid. So let’s just come right out with it: You should be paying more for gasoline. And you should be paying more for a number of other goods and services as well, like electricity generated from coal-fired power plants. We all should. Why? Because of a simple economic concept that, frankly, we should hear way more about than we do. I’m talking about externalities, and in the wake of the BP Gulf spill , it’s high time we take a closer look at… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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