Most people know that the United States is the biggest user of fossil-fuel energy, but few realise that it is also the largest user of non-fossil-fuel energy and by a wide margin.
Costs not captured include electrical grid upgrade, connectivity of renewables and buffering of their intermittency by rapid cycling of fossil fuel plants as presently practiced in this country, and non-carbon-tax externalities such as pollution and health care costs associated with energy sources, especially for coal.