"Quick, don't make the world more efficient! The wrong people might also benefit..."
This strikes me as the opposite of "planting trees whose shade you'll never sit under." If the latter makes civilizations great, where does the former attitude lead?
There is no reason to subsidize energy companies. They are operating renewable power plants, which have intermittency issues, they should be solving this problem. I don't see any reason why I should be part of their problem of their own making.
