Crenshaw: "Calls for a carbon tax are similarly misguided. Even if we were to implement a carbon tax, such a policy might inadvertently increase emissions as our cleaner, better-regulated American oil-and-gas industry potentially cedes market share to less clean Russian and Saudi producers. At the risk of stating the obvious, the developing world won’t stop demanding energy just because we decide to tax ourselves more."
Great point: Doing carbon re-capture on natural gas is WAY easier than with coal because it starts so much cleaner.
Every time they say wind and solar, we say, what are you going to use the other 65% of the time.
Bill Gates quote for wind and solar: “What’s your plan for steel?”
He barely touches on nuclear, not his part of the plan, but that has to be the centerpiece. The whole electric vehicle craze will need the grid to be powered, not subsidized or politicized.
