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Yay record number of private jets helping out a record number of greenhouse gas emissions.

Fix the market externalities. You don't get to spew carbon into the air for free.

As someone who was 12 years old in 2006, it's baffling to me that we came so close to an effective tax on carbon so long ago, and now it's anathema to even bring it up on a national platform. The cap-and-trade system in place in California is the one thing that keeps my hope in that state alive.

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