5.8+Acid+Deposition

Jordan & Linda
 * Strategies to reduce the demand on automobiles:**

- Oil tax on automobiles — people will be less inclined to own their own personal vehicles, or less inclined to use their own vehicles for short distances and only choose to use them for long trips. This will promote & cause an increase in public transportation (or walking). Funds could be used to develop more efficient automobiles, etc. - Carpooling for people who tend to go in the same direction daily (for work or school, etc etc) Incentive to carpool may be cash given to vehicle owner or upkeep on the vehicle by the government. HOWEVER, carpooling is only useful in places with limited parking for employees or large numbers of employees in comparison to available parking spaces. - Collecting older makes of automobiles that use inefficient amounts of oil/gas and release a high amount of pollutants, and replace with a more energy efficient vehicles. (Cash for Clunkers example in the US) - Make all non-hybrid cars much more expensive than Hybrid Cars (while lowering the cost for a Hybrid since they are not cheap).

Charlie and David ·  Consider pollution as a factor, negative externalities, therefore increase price of inefficient electricity technology such as coal generators. MPC < MSC; overproduced. Bring cost up. Creates more of a mkt for renewable resources. ·  Legislation that regulates SO2 and NOx emissions, costs electricity companies more to comply. Raises price, consumers bear cost -> switch to alt ·  Govt expenditure, firms own spending on better technology, introduce that to market. ·  Contests sponsored by govt; e.g. $1 billion for anyone who can come up w/ new technology. But this is more “clean technology”. Battery technology. X Prize. · []
 * Demand for Electricity:**