Comments on: Oil Industry Tears Page from Health Care Playbook to Battle Climate Bill http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/08/17/oil-industry-tears-page-from-health-care-playbook-to-battle-climate-bill/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Emile Overmeyer http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/08/17/oil-industry-tears-page-from-health-care-playbook-to-battle-climate-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-554954 Emile Overmeyer Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:41:47 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=7851#comment-554954 Bless you for taking the time to publish this. I appreciate where you are originating from on this article yet unfortunately I believe that you have more desirable solutions. Bless you for taking the time to publish this. I appreciate where you are originating from on this article yet unfortunately I believe that you have more desirable solutions.

]]> By: DJB http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/08/17/oil-industry-tears-page-from-health-care-playbook-to-battle-climate-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-23451 DJB Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:13:19 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=7851#comment-23451 I am convinced that cheap gasoline and stopping climate change are mutually exclusive goals (i.e. you can't have them both). How can you stop climate change without curtailing the use of fossil fuels? How can you curtail the use of fossil fuels without making them more expensive (since an outright ban on their use would be impractical)? As long as we're afraid of expensive gasoline the oil industry will weaken any climate bill before Congress to the point of kitten-like inefficacy. Expensive fossil fuels mean giving CPR to clean alternatives and giving people all of the right incentives to care for the environment. No pain, no gain. I am convinced that cheap gasoline and stopping climate change are mutually exclusive goals (i.e. you can’t have them both).

How can you stop climate change without curtailing the use of fossil fuels? How can you curtail the use of fossil fuels without making them more expensive (since an outright ban on their use would be impractical)?

As long as we’re afraid of expensive gasoline the oil industry will weaken any climate bill before Congress to the point of kitten-like inefficacy.

Expensive fossil fuels mean giving CPR to clean alternatives and giving people all of the right incentives to care for the environment. No pain, no gain.

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