A pigovian tax is not mutually exclusive with those options— in fact it incentivizes them. No need to do market planning for “lab grown meat” or whatever is the

A pigovian tax is not mutually exclusive with those options— in fact it incentivizes them. No need to do market planning for “lab grown meat” or whatever is the central planner’s fancy du jour: set a price and let the market figure it out. Why have governments pick and choose “winning energy strategies” when you can let the market do it? Literally how it works in practice with carbon credits today, your assertions to the contrary notwithstanding.