Coal and Oil Will Cost the US $23 Trillion from 2010-2030, New Study Finds

[d.mcc]

An alarming new study has found that between 2010 and 2030, the US will spend an estimated record-breaking $23 trillion on coal and oil. The report found that for the first time, the US spent over $1 trillion on fossil fuels in 2008--and the trend is only growing. By 2030, it warns there's a good chance we'll be spending a staggering $1.7 trillion a year to sate our coal and oil demands...

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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009...3-trillion.php

[ccbatson]

Gasp...you mean affordable energy isn't free? You mean that rather than the government spending other people's money on dead end alternates, individuals are actually choosing to buy affordable real world energy? And this is a bad thing?