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I'm sarcastically saying that we had proposals for a cap and trade system that would have mitigated it but it was destroyed for political reasons.



Obviously. I'm non-sarcastically saying that cap-and-trade won't work, because any meaningful cap is unrealistic to achieve. The political reason is: We want cheap energy. The politically acceptable choices boil down to burning coal or gas, no matter how bureaucracy is layered on top.




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