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Good to see some action away from "climate" regulations ruining the energy sector and making everything downstream more expensive. You can't have a booming indu
by GreenVulpine 7d ago
Good to see some action away from "climate" regulations ruining the energy sector and making everything downstream more expensive. You can't have a booming industrial economy without cheap energy. And no, having strict regulations that just end up moving production offshore doesn't solve anything. It just moves to pollution to China or India or whatever.
- sailfast 7d agoHow does one move power plant pollution offshore to China?
- collinmcnulty 7d agoThis is absurd. The cheapest energy available is solar, which is becoming more true every day. If truly the goal was just to have cheap energy, solar buildout would be a huge component of the strategy.
- efnx 7d agoSo now as a planet we have to curb greenhouse gasses in the US _and_ China or India or whatever.
- dumberquestions 7d agoWe're already paying for and will continue to pay more for the downstream effects of climate change some way or the other, you just refuse to or are unable to look at the bigger picture.
- nxm 7d agoTell China and India to stop building coal plants first, and also ban private jets, and then we can talk.
- dumberquestions 7d agoTaxing carbon will affect everything, including private jets, and China is doing more for solar power than any other place in the world and they're also investing heavily in renewables and nuclear. In any case, the solution to other countries not doing their parts is figuring out ways to incentivise and coordinate better outcomes, not giving up completely, giving up only makes sense if someone is in denial regarding the consequences.
- Phelinofist 7d ago> a booming industrial economy Nothing more important than that!!