{"id":402985,"date":"2021-03-04T10:38:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T05:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=402985"},"modified":"2021-03-04T10:49:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T05:19:17","slug":"big-oil-friends-the-carbon-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/big-oil-friends-the-carbon-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Big oil \u2018friends\u2019 the carbon tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ice did not break. There was not peace in the valley on Monday because the American Petroleum Institute, the nation\u2019s premier fossil-fuel lobby, revealed that it\u2019s leaning toward supporting a carbon tax.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t expect a revolution. Ten years from now, maybe. But the Obama-Biden left long ago lost any interest in this favorite nostrum of economists. This is one of the tragedies of climate politics in our era.<\/p>\n<p>We have leisure to remind ourselves that climate-related models are always an elaboration of a hypothesis; ultimately only the real world can yield the data that tell us if a hypothesis is correct. That said, a timely new model from Jos\u00e9 Luis Cruz \u00c1lvarez and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg of Princeton allows that human behavior, including reproductive behavior, will adapt to future climate changes as indeed it has since early man sought out cave openings that pointed away from the prevailing winds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ice did not break. There was not peace in the valley on Monday because the American Petroleum Institute, the nation\u2019s premier fossil-fuel lobby, revealed that it\u2019s leaning toward supporting a carbon tax. Don\u2019t expect a revolution. Ten years from now, maybe. But the Obama-Biden left long ago lost any interest in this favorite nostrum of economists. This is one of the tragedies of climate politics in our era. We have leisure to remind ourselves that climate-related models are always an elaboration of a hypothesis; ultimately only the real world can yield the data that tell us if a hypothesis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}