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"Most of the modest costs of decarbonization will never hit the federal budget, as they will be absorbed by the utility industry, the automobile producers, and other parts of the private economy."

This worked out great for France. Just tell all the working class to buy a Tesla

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Actually it works great for France.

Look at all the electrified trains that the French take to work instead of driving.

Decarbonization does mean going to 0% overnight.

OP is referring to the enormous riots and rollback of similar policies in a much, much more liberal country.

When people talk about CNN being fake news, they're talking about this article. This is only feasible in the minds of people on HN/elites. People in the rest of the country, not so much. It's fascinating to me that in an era of staunch conservatism this is treated as something approaching possible.

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