Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Cheaper - by far - to just use fossil fuel and offset the carbon release with carbon capture technology. Doubt that will change in the next several decades, at least not without a hellacious capital investment that would take even more decades to recover.
Or build a nuke power plant and count the natural gas you are NOT burning as recapture.
It is not cheap. The current actual cost of gasoline in the US is over $15/gallon. Luckily, for drivers, it is heavily subsidized by the US government. Jet fuel/diesel, etc., is all heavily subsidized, just like all transportation modes are heavily subsidized...