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Which means that they have a relatively easy lever they can pull to significantly lower emissions even further.
by bryanlarsen 3y ago
Which means that they have a relatively easy lever they can pull to significantly lower emissions even further.
- rgmerk 3y agoUndoing dumb rules that favour existing vested interests is hard everywhere. I mean, the US doesn't exactly cover itself in glory in its own utility regulations. "cost-of-service" regulation means that monopoly utilities are allowed to charge such that they make a regulated rate of return on the cost of providing the service. So the more they increase their costs, the more money they are permitted to make!
- bryanlarsen 3y ago"Relatively easy" is a poor phrasing choice on my part. It's still very hard, but it's one of the easiest in a list of really hard tasks. Solving climate change involves a lot of really hard problems.