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Democrats campaigning on "affordability" are cutting back on their anti-oil rhetoric but they should be focusing on removing the red tape surrounding solar, which could be much cheaper! (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Kirk@startrek.website to c/energy@slrpnk.net

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Ultimately the only way to reduce emissions enough is for gas prices to be very high, but I can see how supporting high prices would be really unpopular politically

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[–] Kind_to_Everyone@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 months ago

Not necessarily. The answer could be to make clean electricity prices so low that even normal gasoline prices are more expensive.

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