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Incandescent bulbs provided light and people were happy to use them.

They were outlawed for the simple reason that the problem they solved wasn't efficient compared to other ways of solving the same problem.

The same thing will happen to cars with internal combustion engines.

People may value the sound of combustion engines or the warm glow of incandescent bulbs but as a society we don't care what they value since we share the effects of externalities.



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