THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Mideast, energy policies should be similar - Sacramento Politics - California Politics | Sacramento Bee

A useful analogy for this moment comes from climate science, where a popular motto says: Given how much climate change is already baked into our future, the best we can do now is manage the unavoidable and avoid the unmanageable.
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All these standards would then be reinforced with a price on carbon. That is how you get higher energy prices but lower energy bills, because efficiency improvements mean everyone uses less.