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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee... by YPCrumble on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @12:47PM (#27052311)
You claim that “the price will have hugely different consequences for steel than natural gas production” as if that’s a problem so big that we should agree with you that a carbon tax is not a great solution. Why is that so bad - isn’t raising the price of steel exactly what a carbon tax should do?
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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee... by dmlerner on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @12:52PM (#27052388)
I think the idea is that the steel/gas price changes would be disproportionate to their real carbon uses.
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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee... by ahmedalsudani on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @01:23PM (#27052812)
How would that happen?

If the price is set on carbon, I’d expect it to be proportionate.

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