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If the neoliberal economic calculations of supply and demand are not taking into account important externalities like carbon emissions, can we really say that the advertised cost is the true cost? I feel like that's the biggest mental roadblock for me literally looking at some table "of this costs that per kWh" and assuming it's that simple. I doubt the free market, as it currently exists, is accurately pricing the true costs of these energy forms; I suppose subsidies and other political price meddling could theoretically account for some of those externalities, but that seems like a bandaid, not a solution, and even then only assuming the politicians have an accurate understanding of what those externalities are.