Originally Posted by $5 submissions

I hate to say it... but it needs to be said... Fuck it. Let the price keep rising. Sure, it will hurt in the near term but it will make cleaner/more renewable fuels more competitive. Hopefully, we reach a point where they attain economies of scale and the price slides down permanently. At that point, the sacrifice and pain of near term economic shock would have paid off... The result: cleaner air, less geopolitical bullshit, more distributed power economics...

(rant: over)