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  Command and Control vision

  Good discussion! My argument is we should lead with the outline / vision of the solution, then build financial incentives to get there, as opposed to presuming that a Cap and Trade system will efficiently and rapidly lead to a good solution.

  The main components of that vision are efficiency, renewable electrcity, and electrfied transportation. Those technologies exist, although we'd all agree that they will be refined in mass-production.

  Some of these are important but "binary" changes -- such as automakers beginning to make electric vehicles, electrifying railroads, or ending construction of new coal-fired power plants -- that especially need a Command and Control mandate to get underway.On Why the rush to defend this not-so-embattled style of legislation? posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago 13 Responses

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  Efficacy of Command and Control

  I'm glad to see discussion of Command and Control. With an emerging consensus on what can work, just direct that it be done! Resorting to market mechanisms implies that we have to wait and see what will emerge with incentives, a significantly slower process if it works at all.

  Four of five points in Adam Stein's "Grand Climate Plan" here last August are directive:

  1. Carbon pricing
     
  2. Efficiency standards
     
  3. Carbon-free electricity
     
  4. Smart electrical grid
     
  5. Electric transportation

  I illustrated my version here, without carbon pricing.

  To use the World War II analogy, Roosevelt didn't seek to create market incentives for auto companies to build tanks. There was no time to waste; he just directed that they do it.On Why the rush to defend this not-so-embattled style of legislation? posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago 13 Responses

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  Confused patchwork auto industry

  Only the auto industry could find just TWO choices (California or US) "a confusing patch work of different state standards".On How will EPA move forward on revisiting Calif. waiver? posted 9 months, 4 weeks ago 5 Responses

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  The right solution...

  Your comments are painfully true, David. Which is a reason I've tried to step back to a bigger picture.

  The right solution -- that I hope can achieve wider and quicker political support -- addresses all of Global Warming, foreign oil dependence and Peak Oil, and appropriate economic stimulus investment.

  See LA Visions for a visualization.On What the Obama presidency means posted 10 months ago 26 Responses

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  Greenpath

  The primary purpose of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's Greenpath North transmission corridor is to access baseload geothermal electricity from the Imperial Valley to replace current out-of-state coal power (DWP is 44% coal).

  Los Angeles has also announced a 1,300 Mw in-basin rooftop plus desert solar program. The good news is (1) they are actively moving forward on renewables, with a 35% RPS goal by 2020 and (2) are working with environmentalists on sensitive issues like transmission siting.On A detailed look at building, industry, transportation, and land-use greenhouse-gas emissions posted 10 months, 1 week ago 38 Responses