&gt;What is the impact on people when their energy costs are raised? (Hint: energy - vast amounts of it - goes into everything, from growing food to producing artificial heart valves.)<p>There ought to be minimal impact on overall energy costs since renewable energy is capable of filling in the demand at the same cost these days.<p>Renewable energy is also perfectly capable of ramping up supply to match demand (unlike oil or gas there isn&#x27;t a hard resource limit to manufacturing capacity).