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Letting what market figure out the best way?
A cap-and-trade system will not by itself eliminate dirty energy's unfair advantages |
David Roberts |
19 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| On p. 57 of Fred Krupp's (generally excellent) new book Earth: The Sequel, it says this: In essence, renewable standards, subsidies, and other mandates assume that the government has all the answers, rather than letting the market figure out the best way to produce clean energy at the lowest cost. I'm never satisfied with how people talk about this stuff. On one side you have this sort hankie-waving fear of besmirching the virtue of the virgin market. On the oth ... |
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| Topics: business, carbon tax, carbon trading, coal, energy (all these topics) |
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